life and daily challenges
Dec 21, 2008 | Categorized Under: Buddhism | | CommentsTo simply living life in presence, while being tentative is a difficult but important buddhist practice. If you live with your eyes open, there is so much you can learn from your every day experience – you just have to be open minded for it!
Since I’m getting more and more in to Buddhist’s philosophy, it puts a smile on my face, when I realize new challenges arising. To give you an example, some one I know is currently with the army in a war territory. First that was a big chock to me, but getting deeper in to it, it helped me practice love and compassion. Further more I learned a big deal out of it in terms of death – realizing what an important issue it is and facing that death always can happen. Since ever I’m trying to live my life having in mind that you never know when it might be your last day. That is a great gift, cause you tend to do things straight ahead and do not postpone it. It makes your life more focused, real and straight.
Another experience I recently had was how near by opposites really are – this one is difficult to explain. But it reminds me in a phrase his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama once said “we can not practice patience and compassion without our enemies”. A few days ago I was in a very emotional and sad mood. I guess I haven’t felt that bad for a long time. While analyzing what I’m going through, I realized that it is this weakness that gives me the strength to go on, and it is the sad feeling making me happy, because I know what it is for. And while realizing that I have to develop even more patience, so I simply continue… this based on my impatience as well.
To conclued these thoughts: you never know what your karma is like, but you have to be open for it and for the every day challenges… this will take you a good portion further on you way!