The Buddhist Path to Peace - Post #1 Suffering

All of zen, all of Buddhism, is about the same thing: your life - your own suffering and how to go beyond this suffering.

Duhkha: Unsatisfactoriness or suffering. Literally referes to a stuck axle that won't turn. It happens when we are not willing to flow with life's changes - this brings suffering continuously into our lives.

Four basic reasons why we suffer:

- We want what we don't have

- We resent what we do have

- We long for a loved one who is not there

- We despise the person who is with us now

We are always grasping for something we think we do not have.

How can we end delusion, ignorance and suffering?

Dhyana: To sit still with one's spine erect and naturally relaxed and just be, not doing anything.

Close your eyes for two minutes. Think: I have peace and am free from pain right here. Right now.

Note: If we had not known suffering - we would also not know peace! We can't have one without the other.

Love - Hate

Hot -  Cold

Humanity - Spirituality

We would not reconize one without the other. We need both to be able to see and learn and experience life.

Be fully present in each moment experiencing whatever comes. If it is pain... then allow yourself to experience pain, if it is pleasure, then allow yourself to experience this pleasure. One thing is for sure... whatever it is --- it will change and if we want peace then we had better learn to experience feelings and let them pass us by.

I am on a path to peace won't you join me?