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My Life Thus Far
2009-02-20 06:21:05 (UTC)

Life Doesn't Have To Be Painful

Last night after I crawled in bed with my new book and it
changed my life. Well, not really but it did help me relax
and I managed to fall asleep a whole two hours earlier
than I normally do. That's a start.

There's something so poetic about the way the Dalai Lama
speaks (or in this case writes). Even though his writing
is translated into English, it still flows so fluidly that
you have no idea how long or how much you're reading. I'm
already half way through How to Practice and I didn't
spend more than maybe an hour reading it. The message
isn't heavy or hard to understand. It's inspiring and easy
to implement into daily life.

All day today I've thought about what it means to live a
meaningful life and how that applies to me. I'm not a
monk. I can't give up my life to devote my entire being to
monastic studies, but having a little piece of that life
interjected into my world helps. I'm much more at peace.
Not just from reading half of a book the Dalai Lama wrote,
but also from the lessons I've learned through my mistakes
and how I've adapted. While it is ingrained in human
nature to want to avoid suffering, it seemed like for a
while I was doing nothing but opening myself up to it.
Slowly I'm starting to figure it out; life doesn't have to
be painful. Not physically. Not emotionally. I don't think
I'll ever reach enlightenment, but if I keep on the path
I'm on now, maybe someday I'll have a little wisdom :)
Ciao.





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