A wonderful landscape, a clouded place, a difficult stage, or an easy step are all part of the journey we may experience towards the path of a meaningful life. There is no one with the power to predict what happens next. There is no one with the ability to dictate what we must do, out of our full and clear informed consent. There is no place where we can achieve peace of mind, out of our own efforts. As the universe, life is composed of an impermanent sequence of events, and understanding that sequence while we are living its associated outcome is the duty we have when we consider ourselves alive and conscious.

Sometimes we are living moments we are not certain about, and we just put the self in the middle of the scene to be better equipped, and able to acquire a bit of knowledge to decide the next step we have to take. To be clear as crystal, imagine we are on a sidewalk and we need to cross the street to the other side. However, the weather is not so good, and we have no way to be sure no vehicle is approaching from a far distance. In that moment, what we have to do is analyse the scene, trying to get, from the point we are on the sidewalk, the knowledge about a secure distance to cross the street unwarmed. The moment we get such a bit of knowledge, we then go for it.

Life works in a similar way. If we always use the same approach, remaining in silence, talking too much, or alternating from silence to talk in a very conditioned way, every situation we experience would result in throwing a coin with only one side, and expecting to get a result we already have an idea we would get. It is like having the need to cross the street but remaining static on the sidewalk, waiting for a divine entity to get the self to the other side, and acting as our life has been decided by the universe itself. If no divine entity appears, we remain our entire lifetime waiting on the sidewalk, as our unconscious mind is on the driver's seat, and the conditioning we are subject to allows no decision against the pre-defined, and expected, sequence of events. That does not represent understanding suffering but embracing it, which on the best of luck, would get us into comfortable places.

Understanding suffering like Buddha, the enlightened one, has done in his time, is living a life, making decisions, acquiring knowledge from them, and recognising whether we step in such a period. If you prefer the fisherman analogy, living a life is like fishing: we have to evaluate the environment to see if we keep waiting,  or prepare the self for another round, probably into another place.

The moment we realise no conditioned approach is the best solution to all different events, environments, and scenes we may experience in the path of our life, it is the moment we understand wisdom is reached by getting knowledge from every situation we put ourselves into.

Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓


Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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