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The difference is that <i>chance</i> has the element of the complete unknown to it, while <i>risk</i> has the element of percentage.<br>For instance, if I pass another vehicle on a blind bend, I am taking a real chance. For all I know, a huge front end loader is trundling toward me...</p><p>Gambling is another form of chance. The prospect of me winning is a complete unknown, no matter how much I believe in luck and fortune. Many of us confuse risk and chance, and wind up believing we don't have options, when really we do.</p><p>Risk is based on a percentage of odds, which have known variables to them. Variables we can make choices about. Let's suppose a man drinks too much for his own good, and keeps losing his job. The risk, or percentage of odds, is high it will keep happening until he changes his attitudes. There is no chance involved. If he got help and took responsibility for his life, then the risk, or percentage of odds, is low or zero that he will compromise his quality of life again by excessive drinking.</p><p>Or maybe a woman has the idea she can reform the man she falls in love with. "All he needs is a good woman..." The percentage of odds is high she will be disappointed over and over. By changing her attitudes about relationships the risk is low or zero she'll be disappointed again. Knowing there are odds to life experiences gives you the power of choice.</p><p>Coming from an abused background creates the idea that we are powerless to change ourselves. For a long time I approached relationships, jobs and life-in-general as it being a lottery of chance, with me the hapless victim who must take whatever fate handed me. I grew up in an environment where chance was King of the Hill. The adults acted as professional victims. Consequently, so did I. Learning the difference between risk and chance was the wedge I inserted into the crack of dysfunction, and thus begin walking a path with heart for myself.</p><p>Risk is part of the fabric of life. Buddha taught that life contains suffering - and it does. Life also contains risk, which is subtly linked to suffering. And then there is serenity, which is the reward of dealing with suffering. Chance is painful. It generates fear, tension and resentment.</p><p>Risk generates choice based on percentage, it inspires courage, strength and intention. This percentage of risk allows a conscious option of what we will or won't do to attain the object of our desire or ambition.</p><p>I invite you to make a wedge by choosing to risk. Look around your life and you'll soon find a crack of dysfunction to put it in. Then gently tap the wedge with the mallet of compassion for self. 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