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The illusion of "I want to get it over with" / Giving clients the confidence to be more patient than that.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  When someone says "I want to get it over with," is the person doing nothing but merely chasing after an illusion?  Let us consider the ultimate effort to get it over with: suicide. My spiritual guru and friend Jun Yasuda told me that one day a man walked up to her teacher, the late Nichidatsu Fujii Guruji, and proclaimed that he was going to kill himself. Perhaps against the advice of those at suicide helplines, Fujii Guruji laughed, and said something along the lines of: "You think it is that easy to get away from your problems?" Of course, Fujii Guruji and Jun-san believe in reincarnation. I did not learn whether this man ultimately decided not to kill himself; because of their belief in reincarnation, I do not know how much that question mattered to Jun-san and Fujii Guruji...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).