Do you ever find yourself thinking with frustration… “I just want to feel better, I just want to be happy, I don’t like feeling this way and I want it to change.” Does this idea of “feeling better,” drive the decisions you make in life? I ask, not because it’s wrong, but because it’s very telling of your life focus. It’s one thing to appreciate the feel good moments, and it’s a completely different thing to avoid the perceived negative ones. If you truly desire to understand truth, or to be… (dare I say) enlightened, at some point one must get over the idea that it will be without pain.
If we walk with this desire to avoid what we fear, then consequently we will never reach deeper levels of understanding about ourselves and the world within us. We simply will not grow, we will walk an unconscious life empty of the courage we admire in others. The peace we seek, is accompanied by a journey which may not always feel good, which may at times be uncomfortable, but ultimately satisfying to the soul. From my own experience, when peace underlies the deepest heart ache, what can be seen is a deeper sense of love. When one lives in truth, all emotion, is an extension of grace.
Did you find genuine value within this post? If you did, then most likely you know someone else who will as well. I invite you to share the goodness!
Namaste -Tigmonk
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C.W.
That is great! Eastern philosophers have embraced a way of thinking that most Westerner’s do not. To grow one must suffer. Ironic isn’t it:-
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Tiger
Only ironic if it’s seen as its opposite. To suffer…? I would say to experience pain. I see the word “suffer” to mean almost an unnecessary pain. Meaning a pain that over stays it’s welcome, which may not be necessary. But again, it’s part of the lesson.
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J.B.J Quezon City, Philippines
“The peace we seek, is accompanied by a journey which may not always feel good, which may at times be uncomfortable, but ultimately satisfying to the soul.” Very true