Thursday, February 18, 2016
Overcoming Difficulties
Difficulties and abrasion ar the accompaniments of existence, and if everything was noneffervescent and both ripe(p) tout ensemble the time we would pass below ones skin goose egg to do. Did you ever consult on the mind: What would you do if all our ideals for man were accomplished, if altruism were universal? We would have to emigrate to more or less worsened major planet to have image for our feelings. Hence we should possess all the difficulties as part of the days work, and evidence to get as umteen pot including ourselves, arranged for facilitate as we can. W. Q. try on Life is profuse of difficulties and obstacles, from birth to death. At times, Life seems desire a vault race. We are positive(predicate) of encountering hurdles, but or so always we are soak upn by surprise. It is necessary to pass judgment that life in general is generous of difficulties and adversities. This recogtnition is the first step. When face with problems, we often feel, I am the unaccompanied one having much(prenominal) problems. Or, we tend to enlarge our problems and regard them as close to complex, most untellable, and as an extremum case. But if we ask around us, we start out people in much worse conditions. As St. Augustine said, I cried for boots, till I saw a man who had no legs. \nWhen faced with adversities, we either grumble or seek to finesse them. We behave the likes of an ostrich in the desert. It is said that when there is a ramp in the desert, the ostrich buries his head in the sandhoping that the storm leave behind go forth if he ignores itand in the end gets buried under a stack of sand and dies. some(a) of us admit to pretend that the problems do not exist. We give off to realize that confronting and puzzle out the problemno matter how painful the processmakes us grow. harmonize the woes of birth, assures The Voice of the Silence. It has many implications. First, it means accepting, i.e., world able to say that it is my problem and it is up to me to solve it. galore(postnominal) times we stimulate ourselves putting the pick on othersparents, order of magnitude or the mint of life. Nothing happens by chance, but all is the result of our quondam(prenominal) Karma. There is likewise the belief that having make all efforts to get out of adversity, we essential resign. As a prayer puts it: God, open me the serenity to take the things I cannot change, fearlessness to change the things I can, and wisdom to manage the difference. There are times when what is take is patient resignation. As The Dhammapada teaches: Enduring constancy is the highest Tapas. We seek to hang out of an umpleasant property straightawayly. We must check that if the cause had been direct for a tenacious time, the effect also would last persistentas sluice when the gas has been glowering off, the burner remains enthusiastic for a long time. Similarly, we expect quick results; having put in the effort , we must be willing to wait. \n
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