Life is Difficult! Suffering Exists!

 

There is only one solution [to adversity]. That is a shift to a new consciousness. 

Eckhart Tolle

This being human thing is tough. There is no doubt about it.  It can be beautiful, exciting, fun, growth enhancing, and a perfect platform for learning a myriad of things...but man is it difficult!

I am at the point now where I no longer feel the need to paint over reality with a rose coloured acrylic.  I no longer want  to sugar coat my perception and speech about Life  with a bunch of forced and insincere positivities. The reality is...it can be difficult.

Of course, I have done enough work, scientific observation, and inner reflection to discover what makes it so difficult ( the mind and its judgements, its preferring, its attachment to 'outer world' phenomena; our resistance of reality; our samskaras and inablity to confront them so they are released etc, all equating to the level and focus of consciousness) but the fact remains.  Being human is freaking tough! 

Adversity comes in two forms: the personal kind (also within your family) ...and the collective kind.

I have grown enough to know it isn't 'all about me' but this insignificant one out of 8.5 billion other experiencers would have to leave a yelp review that said , "Forking difficuly! A bit too challenging at times."

I see adversity in my own puny little experience, the experience of loved ones, and it extends all around me to the world at large. It seems that humanity, in general, is suffering. I am so, so aware, for some reason, of that suffering. I feel like I am choking on it sometimes. It can be all consuming. Observing the suffering world breaks my heart and adds to my personal sense of difficulty. It affirms that Scott Peck was absolutely right, "Life is difficult!" I get to the point sometimes where I find myself saying, "I have had enough with this Earth school. I quit. Beam me up Scotty." 

Am I being morbid? Am I being overly dramatic and negative? 

I don't think so.  I think I am being very realistic. Being that the first and most crucial step in recovery is to recognize what the problem is...I think it is so very important that we begin our healing with the reality, as Peck had done in "The Road Less Travel" and what the Buddha had done in the Four Noble Truths..."Life is Difficult! Suffering Exists! " 

I remember struggling in high school math. It was so difficult for this very right dominant brain of mine to figure out the problems. I, having a friend group that excelled in math and wanting so much to be like them, hid the fact that I didn't understand and pretended, to some degree, that "Math was easy" for me. Denying the problem only made the suffering greater.  It wasn't until I admitted to myself and others that I was finding it so difficult that I got the help I needed.  I discovered I had to get to the root of each problem and with guidance and support work my way to a passing grade.

In this Earth school, I think we need to stop falsely claiming "Life is easy for me!" in hope that it will prove true with our affirming. We need to admit out loud that "Being human is very hard" at times. We need to trace back to the roots of our suffering (the personal mind) and begin working on the so called problems from there. 

Once we do that we will be able to say. "Life is forking difficult! There is so much suffering in me and around me. Suffering exists...but it is okay.  I am going to spend my time here as a human seeking the root cause of the suffering and I am going to do my best to learn to heal and grow away from suffering into peace.  I don't know how far I will get on this healing from suffering journey. Not sure if Life will ever be perceived as "easy" to this human...but I am going to watch, observe, explore, examine, learn, and grow from the process. I am going to direct mind away from denying suffering exists, to embracing the fact that it does. I am going to shift to a new conscousness.

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Eckhart Tolle (April, 2018) Wh_ th_ World Feels O_t of Control Right Now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hTJYfqGm1s