122-Endure our Self - Buddhism in daily life

Endure our Self


We all end up just trying to bear ourselves somehow. We are all
vulnerable, very needy, full of anger and rage, but also filled
with shame.


Until today, we do not feel sufficiently loved, we all suffer
from the same things that the great teacher has shown us to be
useless. There is no justice in this world, certainly not in this
universe, and there is no truth either, only the countless
subjective sensations that we feel to be true, from which we then
"knit" "our" truth.


Who is honest to himself will have to admit that our human
existence is only difficult to bear. First of all the great
uncertainty, what comes after death, is there a life after, what
happens to "me", will I go to heaven, to hell, will I be born
again, or was that it after my departure. And then the fact that
we age, become sick and ugly, might be dependent on care, the
prospects are not really inspiring in themselves. Furthermore,
the dangers that lurk on the path of life, that we have to endure
and suffer, human existence is hard to bear.


But the situation is quite different for those of us who follow
the Buddha's teachings, either as "feel-good Buddhists", or as
already awakened ones. The philosophy of the Indian prince helps
us a lot to bear (and thus to carry) our self, because nothing we
can change the result, everything is as the karma dictates. Of
course, we have acquired the karma in previous incarnations, so
we are not to blame (today). Besides, it is connected with the
destiny of the people around us, with the karma of the whole
universe.


We must learn to bear ourselves, we must not be displeased with
our self, we must not hate our reflection, we must accept
everything and everyone in our life, because we have no choice
anyway. Then we can also go our way in peace and quiet. However,
as long as we are caught up in the occidental concept of guilt
and atonement, no "awakening" will be possible, because the self
cannot be endured from this mindset.


We can and must detach ourselves from the old thought patterns,
follow the philosophy of the teacher of all teachers, detach
ourselves from subjective feelings. Because only then, when we
deal with the matter, only then we can understand the
connections.


And the way is and remains the goal!


He who has reached the goal of the wandering, free of suffering,
after long waiting, stands free, all fetters have fallen.


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before
the year zero





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