One of the most useful educations is respect for our own mortality. Whoever we think we are, - death is on the way; in the mean time life does go on! Some people practice dying before they go to sleep. How does it feel? Should I say those words, meet that person or do that thing? If you are ready to die you are ready to live
Just like nature we are in cycles of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Things happening all the time.
Everybody loves problems, ( as long as there is hope they can solve them! ) We have an innate curiosity to understand, to make sense of the world around us. Just look at the way a child learns to listen and speak, learns language. No formal 'teacher' to get in the way.
What we don't love so much is problems that we can't find a solution for, and then what do we do?
Going round in circles is quite popular, and I don't mean going round in cycles, they have a much more useful ebb and flow.
Another solution to unsolved problems is to store them up, to accumulate them. This is not so sustaining. indeed positively weakening to the spirit.
Training, training and more training, self training that is!
It's the same with doubts. What to do? How can we use them? Use them and lose them, find something to do with them, apply them, or hide them and stagnate!
From the beginingless beginning to the endless end we will always have problems, difficulties, challenges, they will not always be the ones we consciously choose. Why not find enthusiasm for these free 'teachers'? They don't not send you a bill!
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Previous blogs:
1:1 Things Happen
1:2 A disaster is an opportunity