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Positive and Negative Mental Attitude

Reading Napoleon Hill's book Think, Grow, and Rich one may realize the beauty of positive mental attitude for the success in worldly life. Success here means whatever you want or have desire is not far way from your reach. It's a positive attitude to see things correctly or at least practicing self hypnosis is key to change the course of life. The basic premise behind the relationship of mind and matter is similar to what Buddha once imagined or the physicist in modern age think about. 


Thinking is key to any attitude. It has a significant role in shaping the reality in which we are in. Though, premise is the same but conclusion of a Buddhist monk and a success enthusiast is quite opposite. A Buddhist monk will preach to understand the limitation of thought or desire so that to achieve equanimity in thought and action. For him, being enmeshed in the drama of the world is a root cause of suffering. More you desire the craving for pleasure will increase. And pleasure is an unquenchable thirst which can't be achieved, felt, or realized in its totality. It has tendency to be big and bigger in quantity; and here comes a point whereas the insatiability of pleasure makes one realize the limitations of life-success. On the contrary, a Buddhist monk will make us realize the limitation of success hidden in desire itself. 


Desiring mind and heart has to stop its activities a minute to think about the direction in which one is treading. Is there a path of suffering or one may practice indifference against desire or at least to see the trap in which one is in? Buddha and Napoleon Hill are on the similar footing to claim the chief place of mind in our life, but both take opposite direction. May be, to understand the limitation of desire one has to pass through desire with immense intensity so that disenchantment would be real against the circular trap of desire. Buddha in his negative mental attitude brings oceanic peace which is hardly imaginable in a world of self-hypnosis. 


Buddha was aware about emptiness of our essence. Buddha's negation is affirmation for life without being trapped in a drama unfolding. To the contrary, success enthusiasts, though, make us belive about power of mind and its capacity to achieve the riches, it is a circular trap of desire, attachment, craving for pleasure, and suffering. Is there anyone in the world who has not suffered, erred, or faced the desperation of defeat? Perhaps, no one ever living can claim any immunity whatsoever. However, our mental attitude is a key guide to direct our life in a course of love and compassion or to lead mind towards competitiveness to leave everyone far behind. And those who choose to walk leaving most is the lonely man we know from our experience.

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