It's been few weeks this thing bothers me. The thought of people have to go through a lot of sufferings during their meditation practice. What I have gone through was, in one day I may be in peace, but in another day I may be in a bad mood. It seems liked my emotion can go up and down quite fast. Honestly, I think the way is hard. One question comes to me, will it be better if I didn't start the practice at all? How different will it be to be like people who just live the regular life, without meditation, seems liked it' s better??? Is this what Buddha said the hindrances that one may face during meditation.
This thought kept on bothering me, until I have a chat with friends talking about my current work. I can say that my work is a good one. No Over Time, very flexible hours.... I can leave work at 4 pm, if I want to, as long as I can maintain the 42 hour work during that week. A lot of my friends always say how good it is if they can have that kind of job. From there, I remember the hard time I had to go through during my graduate studies. Not easy, and pretty tough.... But, if I can choose again, will I choose the same path? The answer is YES. Those hard time bring the good job that I have now. This give me an insight! It's the same thing as the meditation practice. We have to go through the suffering. A lot of emotions, or past things whether they are good or bad, they can appear, and I honestly think it's a suffering to experience all those things. But, I know the suffers worth the suffering.
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