We all know it’s very easy to swim down a stream, but it takes effort and dedication, and courage to go up the stream, and also, it’s very easy to go down a hill but it takes courage, and effort to climb up. That means there are so many easy things that we can do in our life but most of them do not bring happiness to our life. if someone needs to climb up or someone needs to swim up it takes effort. We need to try hard which means it’s very easy to do the things that bring us down and it takes effort and a lot of hard work to bring us to a higher level in our life.
~!~ How our mind is naturally programmed ~!~
Our mind is programmed to do easy things. For example, if you were to choose two jobs, one is hard and another one is easy, which one would you choose? Of course, we choose the easy one, because we always like what is easy, so that is the nature of our life and our mind. doing evil things, doing bad things, and doing unwholesome things is very easy. For example, “it’s very easy to kill a mosquito or fly”. We need to slap it on the fly and kill it. but it takes patience. love, kindness, and mindfulness to not kill that animal and save that animal’s life.
It is very easy to tell a lie when trouble comes to our life when we are facing a problem. But it takes discipline, honesty, and courage not to tell a lie and always tell the truth. It is very easy to blame someone when you get angry or if you lose your temper, it is very easy to blame someone. But it takes patience, love, and kindness not to blame someone and hurt others feelings. The things that bring us unhappiness or suffering are easy to do. So that is the nature of this world but it is very difficult to do which brings happiness to ourselves and to others.
~!~ What we need to forcus in our life ~!~
If we always focus on the wholesome side of our mind. we should never practice the evil things in our minds. the more we practice the wholesome side the more we practice the good things in our life we can be good forever our life will become good and we will be wholesome forever doing wholesome things and practicing good things in our life will become good and we will be wholesome forever. Practicing these things and being a good human is very difficult because all these good things are not familiar to our life because we used to do evil things our mind tends to do evil things. So what we have to do is we should not give up doing good, we can be generous to others. we should practice generosity, we can practice kindness and love all the living beings in this world.
We are living in this short period of our life to do what is hard and hard is the wholesome things. So what we have to do is to keep on practicing, to always do good deeds. we have to discipline our minds, we should not let our minds wander here and there. Even though they are hard things to do, what we have to do is we have to keep on practicing these things. because if we did what is easy today our life will be hard tomorrow. If we do what is hard today, our life will be easy tomorrow. patience, love, kindness, not becoming angry, not telling lies, living a truthful life, and saving living beings’ lives, are the things that are very hard to do. Most of the people who live in this society are not caring about others’ lives. only a few of us save animals’ lives, those who love animals’ lives. we should be among those few people. Most people tell lies when they face problems.
They escape from the problems by telling lies but there are very few who tell the truth even though they are facing a problem by telling the truth. We should become among those few people. Very few among us give the trust to the others who are living with us. It may be your wife, your husband, your relation or your friend. Most people do not tell the truth to the people around them. but very few among us live a trust full life. We should be trustworthy people. we should focus on the good deeds, wholesome deeds and the spiritual practice of our life we will become a good person. we will become good humans. We should focus on good human qualities and living a compassionate life. so we need to practice good deeds, be good and do good.
~ something to think about ~
