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Is life difficult?
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This message was sent to me today. I didn't agree, so I wrote a rebuttal which is included below. Please feel free to add your own commentary.
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. "
Sevara's response:
Hola ******.
I'm afraid I do not agree with the way this person lays out this "truth". Your friend uses convincing words that sound wise, like "truth" and "transcends" but what I read is more of an ill-formed aphorism that is actually rather negative rather than elevating.
First of all, his "truth" of life being difficult doesn't apply to everyone, and specifically not to me. I don't feel life is difficult. Perhaps this is because I have done years of spiritual work on myself, or as a result of positive karma carried over from my past lives, or maybe I'm just lucky.
That life is difficult sounds like a sort of cop out..."oh, man. Things aren't going well. I lost my job, I'm broke, my car has a flat tire...Ya, life is difficult." As if things are going poorly because "life is difficult." Well, let that be someone else's mantra. My mantra is "Life is beautiful, blissful, and bountiful."
The deciding factor of "difficult" or "not difficult" is simply a person's ability to shape their future and destiny. If one believes oneself to be impotent in the ability to direct and influence his or her future then more than likely he or she will find life difficult. However, if one has the power of projection, the self-control to make righteous decisions, and walks the Dharmaic path, he or she will naturally be guided towards bliss, simplicity, and flow.
To continue, how or why does accepting that life is difficult make it not matter? If I accept that I love, does it make the love in my heart not matter? If I accept that I bleed does it make the blood dripping from my veins not matter? On the contrary, by accepting these things, including the difficulties, they matter more, for when love is accepted it can be nurtured, when a cut is acknowledged it can be tended to and healed, and when difficulties arise they can be purged. When things matter they can be experienced to their full depth and only then can all the lessons and wisdom be extracted through the experience. War can be an example of one of life's difficulties. But simply accepting it wont stop the suffering of the innocent.
No, everything matters: difficulties, pain, sorrow, joy, and love. What matters most is that we go through each experience with grace and dignity, as well as with awareness so that with each experience we can grow in a way that brings us closer to our own Infinity and Divinity.
Blessings,
Sevara
Is Life difficult?
Throughout my life, everything revolved around my independence so of course when I lost this to a large extent by an injury I was faced with the choices of my existence in a world where my life as I knew it no longer existed. Losing the concepts I used to describe myself was every bit as hard as loosing the lifestyle and the relationships where I had been known by them and then....accepting that all would fall away and that all that mattered no longer mattered all that mattered was no longer “matter” nor was it all that mattered.
What I could not accept I surrendered and of this humility and of this experience that humbled, drew me closer to my Divine and into the Divine healing of Grace.
In life I had found all I’d ever desired and now it brought me full circle to redefine my desires, my true love, my life’s’ purpose.
I came to realize that the connection of independence and self ran much deeper, that this collection of circumstances had only changed what I had experienced of myself that the undiscovered self engrained into my Spiritual connection was emerging.
My body is still injured but my life does not suffer but rather relishes in (worlds) abandon. The wilful and conscious act of surrender opened up a greater knowing and expression of the true essence of Self and of life that exists beyond the limitations of the 5 sense and in relation to the egoic mind. In relation to my self and my spirituality, consciousness experiences aliveness in human form and is expressed with infinite perspective and foci . No longer is life a continuum of seeking and experiencing suffering, the ego redeemed now embraces happiness.
So is life difficult? ... yes and no.
I still have friends who come up to me and seeing only the difficulty of my life say stuff like, “It must be hard, it must be frustrating, it must be isolating and boring!” I am still learning how to reply knowing that they do not have the eyes to see the life affirming ONEness nor the reason for my smile. I agree! "Life is beautiful, blissful, and bountiful!! Thanks Sevara This mantra is a truthful reply.
G8way2u
our divinity and light
I love your mantra dear Sevara ~ 'Life is beautiful, blissful, and bountiful".
I feel your mantra in your spirit, your words and music ~ That you truly live a blessed life is no accident and I feel that your past lives and spiritual path have all lead you to the radiant and gentle beautiful light that lights your path - a beautiful sojourn ~
Your words also brings to mind a Carlos Castaneda quote - "The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." ~ Also, we all know that expression "We have the choice to see the glass as half empty or half full" ~
I embrace the uplifting light of Divine Earth and your words, Sevara, is a great reflection of that radiant light and joy and love of life ~ Life is an adventure and with each joy we feel the blessings, the abundant gifts and love on our paths of life ~
" life is colourful"
Each day brings a colourful array of new joys, sorrows, triumphs, regrets and yes difficulties. Experiencing all these adventures is life. Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and the beautiful awakening of sorrow and pain reminds me that I am alive and I have the gift of appreciating the feeling of serenity when I know I have made it through hardship with my integrity intact and my spirit renewed. My grand father always told me that you can never appreciate the beautiful mountains without the valleys below.
Blessings,
A-sprout
Truth
Yes, there are alot of difficulties in life, they are there as a challenge. These challenges are there to be like hurdles that we must master. How we master these hurdles is up to each individual.The reward is when you are mastering and not being mastered. As Sevara said we are our own master in life,and create the truth in our life that we wish. Every man has the ability to choose his path. When circumstances come our way that we have no control over, it is also up to each man how he lets the circumstances rule his life. We must always remember that the inward man manifests itself outwardly. You will always know what a man is like by the way he carries himself. If you are defeated by the circumstances in your life then it will be apparent in your demeanor and attitude. You will not be a positive uplifting influence to those around you. This I know to be truth.I really like how Alfalfa sprout put it, "I have the feeling of serenity when I know I have made it through hardship with my integrity intact and my spirit renewed." She must have children!~ Alegria~ By the way when I say "a man" I am speaking plural as in, " man and woman".