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Power of Intention: Much Bigger than Goals or Aspirations

Power of Intention: Much Bigger than Goals or Aspiration s Many people confused intention with goals and aspirations.  An intention is something that you intend to do, which means, you want to do it.  It is much bigger than a goal, for a goal is a target that you set.  A goal is more specific, whereas an intention is more general, but it is an indication of where to want to go.  For example, I intend to go to China for tour, but this is not a goal for a goal will have more specifics including when, where and how.  You must set an intention first before you can set a goal.  Many times our goal is not a goal but just a wish or fantasy.  An intention is not a wish, for it is something that you want to do, deep from your heart.     At the end of the day, your intention must be pure and good .  Pure means your intention cannot be mixed with other things, like what you want in return.   For example, you want to treat your customers well, that is a pure intention, for you have no other goal

Have You Taken Wholesome Food Today?

When we say that a food is wholesome, we mean that it is healthy, conducive and generally sound.  Same for thoughts and actions, for they can wholesome or unwholesome.   It is not the act that is good or bad, but it is the act's wholesomeness that will determine if that act is good or bad.   For example, if you are sleepy and tired, sleep is wholesome.  But if you sleep whole day, sleep will become unwholesome and thus no good.  If we hurt someone and regret it, that regret is wholesome.  But if your regret leads you to a guilt complex that colours whatever that you do in future, that regret is unwholesome.  In the same vein, when our thinking helps us to see clearly, thinking is wholesome.  But if our thinking is clouded by prejudice and inhibits us from seeing clearly, that thinking is unwholesome.  Here are 7 ways that we can can live more wholesomely everyday: Start with the right intention : is it only for our own good and not for others?  For example, if you scold