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Old 08-31-2011, 09:35 AM   #15
MeverikcNils

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Then I thought to myself, why does she sound like this, it clicked, because she is suffering, she's probably worried about her job, her body weight, her boyfriend, all the rubbish that modern day Samsara fills peoples lives up with. Things spun around I began to feel some Metta for her.

When my GF picked me up from the station I saw some young white lads in track suits hanging around trying to look tough. I thought about their lives, poor education opportunities, parents probably out of work, peer groups, pressured by media and other Samsaric sources to act a certain way and I realised they were suffering too, just like we all are. I've read this stuff, but today it really clicked.
I'd made a decision to go to the Vihara at the weekend for the Dhamma study and meditation instruction, this redoubled my determination.
Great moment! This is the best that can happen and could "click" every day. ...also at home with family, friends and neighbors etc. This you have to calibrate and cultivate until it becomes a part of you. Good way to meditate on this daily events. One may include all the people one encounters at certain dramatic days and sending out Loving Kindness to them.

I found a Woody Allen quote about suffering:

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
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