300-Satisfaction from suffering?- Buddhism in daily life

Satisfaction from suffering?


Can it be that some people also derive satisfaction from their
sufferings? And if so, why?


A Chan master in ancient China traveled through the countryside,
from one village to the next, always along paths in nature.


At a crossroads he met an old man, they greeted each other, the
wanderer kept saying, "I am so thirsty, I am so thirsty"!


The master gave him to drink, almost the whole bottle emptied the
new acquaintance in one go.


When he had refreshed himself, he said to the master: "I was so
thirsty, so thirsty"!


Can it be that one of the reasons why so many people suffer is
that they derive satisfaction from their behavior, that they like
to suffer?


Could it be that some people have acquired such behavior?


YES


There are many different reasons to start suffering:


- Already as a child the relatives had said to Peter: "Oh you
poor little one, how you have it only hard, this is surely not
easy for you"! Slowly it dawned on him that compassion makes many
things easier. And then it became a habit, the suffering became
automatic.


- Mary was a little short, not exactly what you call handsome,
early on she began to struggle with her fate, "I have no luck,
life doesn't want me, I can't find a man", self-pity entered her
life, and in this case too, suffering became an automatism.


- Mr. Wu was an unimpressive man, raised as a child of drunkards,
he had few chances in life. He constantly lost his job, his wife
left him shortly after the birth of their child, he began to
suffer, suffering became an automatism for him as well.


This list could be continued indefinitely. Every person has
experienced suffering in his life, the question is how he dealt
with it, whether suffering became an automatism? Whether people
one day began to draw satisfaction from their sufferings? Did
suffering even become the main content of life?


How we deal with suffering, how we process painful experiences,
that is what makes up our "I", our personality.


It is too easy to let the automatism of suffering into our life,
very difficult to remove it from it again.


According to the teacher of all teachers, suffering belongs to
life!


"Every life has its measure of suffering. Sometimes this very
suffering brings about our awakening"


- Buddha-


According to Buddha, the exit from suffering leads through
"enlightenment", which is possible for each of us.


Never say: "I was so thirsty". Say: "I drank"!


The wisdom of a person is not measured by his experiences, but by
his ability to have experiences


- George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright - 1856 to 1950


Truly no one is wise who does not know the darkness


- Hermann Hesse - German writer - 1877 to 1962


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