[yharmon6614]

I find I can intellectually comprehend much of the buddhist teachings and greatly notice the benefits of meditating, mindfulness and bodhichitta (to name a few) in my life but I struggle to implement some of the other concepts into daily life.

On one level I completely get the idea that everything is illusion (like a hologram or dream) - I like the concepts of no-self - emptiness - no-thing. That all emotions are dukkha. Everything is connected.

On another level in this dream I have a human form that would like a roof over its head and food and clothes and friends - that feels happy and sad (even if I have learnt not to react so much to the more negative emotions or crave only things that make me happy) - that feels pain.

Sometimes I get stuck on the concepts of emptiness and illusion and the living of this human form in this lifetime.

What are others thoughts on this.