To avoid feeling miserable about
your Life, stop making assumptions about it. It is almost often the fear of how
your Life will end up that cripples you and brings you suffering.
Think about it. We have been created
to be able, yet we often become miserable. We fret and fume over our
situations, our environments, our relationships, our jobs, our governments and
so many, many other things! One of the reasons why we invite misery upon
ourselves is we imagine a lot of scenarios that don’t exist. What we assume to
be a worst case scenario never really happens. Yet we constantly fear it will
and that fear debilitates us.
The other reason we are miserable
is that we are all attached, particularly, with anything to do with money.
Money is important, no doubt. It is fine as far as you are in possession of
money. But if money has started possessing you, well, you certainly have a
problem. The greatest wealth you can have is this Life. Intelligent living is
the ability to employ discretion and to use money, to the extent one needs it,
than be consumed by trying to protect it. Again, the truth is that everything
that you__and I__need is provided for. Our needs never bring us agony. Our
wants do. So, simply being happy, despite your circumstances, can make your
misery vanish.
That is not to say that you will
not face problems. You will. Such is the nature of Life. But when you
understand that imagining something that has not happened yet, fearing it all
the time, is what causes you misery, and you realize that money is impermanent,
your ability to deal with the problems you are faced with improves
substantially!
So, be present when Life is
happening to you. Don’t cling on to anything. Don’t imagine stuff that hasn’t
happened yet! Your misery will make way for peace and bliss!
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