Vasana

Dear friends, the energy that pushes us to do what we do not want to do, to say what we do not want to say, is called habit energy, the negative habit energy in us. Vasana is the word in Sanskrit. It is very important that we recognize that energy in us. This energy has been transmitted to us by many generations of ancestors, and we continue to cultivate it. It is very powerful. We are intelligent enough to know that if we do this, if we say that, we will cause damage in our relationship. Yet when the time comes, when we find ourselves in that situation, we say it or we do it, even though we know it will be destructive. Why? Because it’s stronger than we are, we say. It is pushing us all the time. That is why the practice aims at liberating ourselves from that kind of habit energy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

4 Replies to “Vasana”

  1. eh, how do you edit the links that are displayed under “Meta”, as well as the name of the “Pages” title (the one you’ve modified to read “Site Related”?

  2. (Note: I have replaced <> with [] below otherwise the code cannot display]

    From the Dashboard, click on “Manage” then “Files”. You are now at the PHP file of the Sidebar.

    To change to “Site Related” use [h3], i.e.:

    [!– site related posts get listed here –]
    [h3]Site Related[/h3]
    [ul]
    [?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?]
    [/ul]

    Scroll down the page to edit the links under Meta. Mine reads:

    [h3][?php _e(‘Meta’); ?][/h3]
    [ul]
    [li]Get [a href=”http://getfirefox.com/” rel=”nofollow”]Firefox[/a]: The browser reloaded[/li]
    [li][a href=”http://validator.w3.org/check/referer” title=”[?php _e(‘Check it yourself’); ? rel=”nofollow”]”][?php _e(‘Valid [abbr title=”eXtensible HyperText Markup Language”]XHTML[/abbr] 1.1’); ?][/a][/li]
    [/ul]

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