My position on experiencing difficult times is also helped by the realization that the death of the physical body was not the big deal I thought it was. I agree with the Dalai Lama when he said “I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end.”
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Difficult Times
A couple of my friends are having difficult times, a situation that used to bother me and make me angry, but no longer does, since I take a broader, more long-term view. My present view began by taking a look at the difficult times in my own life and realizing that they were also the periods when I experienced the most growth. I then read comments like those of deCastillejo: "Some course of action which seems so clearly to be leading to disaster may contain a twist of fate which lifts it to success. That accident whose cause was so apparent may have had an inner meaning we cannot see.......We simply do not know. Scientists discover and theologians affirm; but faced with the mystery of life and death we know almost nothing." Gradually, I began to realize that there was always a benefit to difficult times.
My position on experiencing difficult times is also helped by the realization that the death of the physical body was not the big deal I thought it was. I agree with the Dalai Lama when he said “I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end.”
My position on experiencing difficult times is also helped by the realization that the death of the physical body was not the big deal I thought it was. I agree with the Dalai Lama when he said “I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end.”
