Jan 13, 2021
Join me as I share my struggle finding some peace in the
midst of the uncertainties that have chased us from 2020 into
2021. Despite our urge to run, hide, strike out, or curl
up in a ball, as Buddhists we need to remember that the Buddha
never promised a rose garden.
The Buddha never promised an ordered universe. He said life
is suffering because we grasp to life being something other than it
is. There's a post-modern paradigm that life keeps getting
better and better due to technological and scientific progress. In
some ways it does. But not without a little disorder.
We need ways to navigate the disorder to some sense of
reorder, without running back to the old order ... to our old
"normal." We can do that with our minds. The Buddha made
that promise through the first of the Noble Eightfold Path: Right
View or Right Understanding.