Of course we all go through different degrees of that ‘suffering’ - to some it’s a life or death, moment to moment fight for survival, for others it could be they suffer every time they look at their butt in the mirror and they move up a jean’s size. ‘Suffering’ is a mind label, when felt from the heart we have an emotional reaction to it, usually an uncomfortable one, such as sad, angry, distressed, worried, etc) which is why suffering is not something we love to hang out in. The Four Noble Truths teach us to acknowledge that First Noble truth: there is suffering in life and not to hide from that. Already that sounds super heady/wordy but when you distil and amplify to today’s world it’s a great compass to start to hold our life, our thoughts, our words and our actions to. ![]() The Buddhists have a great map for circumnavigating this Wheel Of Life - The Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. We can be passive and let life play us like a lottery number, we can try to control, grip, force things to go our way, and to feel some mock semblance of safety, or we can enthusiastically take action, jump into the dance and learn to navigate the swell without taking life, or death, too personally. ![]() Our minds are linear, time-based in their training but really our evolution is an ever deepening circular one, a spinning wheel, hence the "Wheel of Fortune' in a Tarot deck - growth, wisdom, understanding, our ability to cope, adapt, mature etc all offered to us along the way at each spin of the wheel - we finally realise as the up-sides/lows keep coming that it's only our reaction and response, either conscious or unconscious, that we can control. We often think we are on a straight line trajectory - birth to death with hard shoulders along the way that we may like to stop and hang out in when life is super sweet, until we are nudged or even dragged kicking further along.
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