Buddhism teaches us to skillfully discern the source of suffering, detach from our expectations and resentments, and end all suffering. * * * * Things change and grow by dying to their present state, but each time it is a risk.Yes, I am saying that the way things work and Christ are one and the same.-- Fr Richard Rohr, April 26, 2019, "Daily Meditation"
'14 - The God of my understanding is in my immediate need...NOW. It is my need that brings forth my supply, whatever that may be. -- my note in today's "God Calling"
What is brought forth, our supply, is rarely what we had self-determined our supply need be. As long as we resist that which is supplied, a spiritual understanding in the form of realization or acceptance is denied or, at best, delayed.
The answer for me today really is in Rohr's words, above, especially in the realization that things change and grow by dying to their present state, That is our supply not as we wanted but as God determined. Say that we sought a friend and were given a tormentor. Ah, once we got over our own self, by moving closer in order to understand rather than to be understood, we began to build a friendship...and find the friend we sought.
Isn't that the Buddhism teaching? Simply, to skillfully discern the source of suffering, detach from our expectations and resentments, and end all suffering.
All our thinking has been done for us. Now we follow the road already mapped for us...you know, the one less traveled.
Thank you.
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