Live with your soul, as all the obstacles and miseries in life would strengthen your soul! Live with your soul, as it would bring true happiness! By doing this, you would be able to spread your benevolent love to everyone.
Let me share a story.
Once upon a time, there's a king who is very dependent towards his smart assistant. This assistant seems to be able to solve any problem under the sun. One day the king accidentally cut off two of his fingers while practicing sword, he was very upset with what had happened. The assistant comforted him by saying, "Your Majesty, misfortune doesn't really exist in life, moreover, this is nothing much, don't be upset". Upon hearing the assistant, the king wondered, "Why on earth would my closest assistant gloat over my misfortune?" As the king was blinded by his anger, he summoned the assistant to be locked up in the dungeon.
One day, the king went out for hunting. Unfortunately he got lost in the forest and ended in the land of the man-eaters tribe. The tribe decided to offer the king to their God, however, while they were in the process of preparing, they found out the king lost two of his fingers, hence they immediately remove him from the offering altar. This is because they believe that it is disrespectful to offer defected beings to the God. Later the tribe decided to release the king's, as the defected beings are known to be inauspicious to the tribe. The loss of his two fingers actually saved the king from being killed.
Return to the palace, the king gave a second thought of what his smart assistant has said and he realized that what he has said was true, thus he released him from the dungeon. However, the king was still very doubtful, he questioned the assistant, "My small misfortune have yielded me from bigger misfortune! But you were locked up because of my misunderstanding towards you, this has brought you misfortune. The assistant smile and replied, "If it wasn't because of your decision to lock me up in the dungeon, who would be the one that accompanies you for hunting?" The king was flabbergasted, since then it has changed the way of how he sees life.
"Everything Happens For A Reason.........Just Believe"
Let go of the gains and losses of your physical body, experience and enjoy your life through your soul.
Whenever there are any misfortunes, you might blame and resent by saying "Why it has to be me? Why? Why am I so unlucky? Why I have to be the one who goes through all the pain?" But when you were showered with happiness and good things in life, why won't you ask "Why is this happening to me?" Why everything seems so perfect and beautiful, why won't you question it?
We have always been seeking for perfection in life, but all the intentional efforts to make a perfect life are the cause of imperfection.
There's a millionaire, he spent fortune to build a perfect garden. After the completion of the garden, he hired 50 gardeners to preserve the perfect garden. He instructed the gardeners to keep the garden free from a single piece of dried leaf or twig and to constantly trim the plants.
One day, a wise man came to visit the millionaire's house and the millionaire brought him to the garden for a walk. The millionaire asked how he feels about the garden. The wise man replied, "It's very beautiful! It is exactly like a perfect cemetery!"
Extreme perfection is a defect, or I should say perfection itself is a defect. A garden is supposed to have dried leaves, twigs and weeds, nature is beauty, and the imperfection of nature itself is perfect.
Sichuan's earthquake victims might think that life isn't perfect before the earthquake, but after the incident when they have lost their loved ones, house, job, property and limbs, they would only realize how perfect life was. Living a life itself is perfect. Live in the moment, natural is beauty.
Intentional acts to make things perfect are unnatural, thus natural things wouldn't be perfect anymore. Don't regret only after you have lost something in life, it would be too late to realize how perfect life was.
Happiness is to let go. Gains and losses in life is only a process, Fortunes and Misfortunes in life are blessings.
Man has so much pain because we can't let go of people and things in life, everything is attached with the word "My", "My" car, "My" house, "My" job, "My" wife, "My" children, "My" parents, it's all mine! In the end, even God became mine, my God is the best and my religion is the holiest of all.
All the "My(s)" are the wants from your body, and it is done in order to fulfill the desires of your body, for the body that was meant to be a tool for your soul, a tool which was supposed to help you to enrich and purify your soul. Instead, it turns out that our soul has become a slave for our body and this is all because you have treated the tool as your true self. At the end of the day, you would only realize you have strive so hard in life only for a tool, a tool which is not even your true self.
This is the reason why Buddhism teaches us to break free from the attachment of "my", because the attachment towards "my" would break you. This teaching has been repeated again and again because it intends to imprint this into your mind as breaking free from "my" also free you from the gains and losses in life, when you have seen past the gains and losses in life you will naturally see the nature of God. Many spirits from the higher realm come to the mortal world to not only meet fated beings; they also come to this place which is filled with evil in order to hone their spiritual belief.
There's a great amount of space in the universe, we can't see through all the spaces due to the limited abilities of your physical body. Our body can only see the world in 3 dimensions, for instance, the car can only run on land and the plane can view the world from above.
The world of soul is made up of 4 dimensions and certainly you can't see it through your 3 dimensional eyes. There's the existence of the higher in the universe, which awaits our soul to discover, this is exactly like playing computer games as you have to advance level by level until it reaches the highest. After you have been through all the levels, you would be able to roam freely in every corner of the universe and enjoy life to its fullest.
All decisions can't run from gains an losses; things come and go.
Fu found a magic lamp and the genie granted him three wishes. He gave some thought and said, "My first wish is to become a billionaire; my second wish is to become a mafia boss and my third wish is to marry Mary, the most beautiful girl on earth. The genie said, "All these wishes are a piece of cake! Are you sure? I think it's better to let you see things clearly before deciding".
The genie brought Fu to the billionaire's mansion, Fu saw him lying sickly on his bed as he has to run his large cooperation, socialize and his gluttony that caused him diabetes and high cholesterol. What's worst is he doesn't even know his sons are all wishing that he would pass away soon so they can inherit his wealth.
After that, Fu was brought to the restaurant where the mafia boss takes his dinner. He saw the mafia boss was surrounded by bodyguards and they never leave a single inch away from the mafia boss. Since the mafia boss has been making enemies along his way due to his job, he is afraid that his enemies might assassinate him any moment. After seeing, Fu said, "This is even worse than being locked up in a cell!".
Next, Fu was brought to Mary - the most beautiful girl on earth's house. He saw Mary scolding the maid, later she even threw an ashtray towards her maid. After reprimanding the maid, she picked up the phone and said, "Hey you! Who do you think you are? So many people are falling head over heels for me and you don't even appreciate me? Who do you think you are? Take a look at yourself in the mirror! I want to file a divorce, go ahead and look for a lawyer! Fu was left astonished and speechless.
The genie said, "If there's no problem with you, I have to proceed with to realize all three of your wishes" Fu replied, "Wait a minute! I realize that there's nothing I lack of, because I possess a healthy body which the billionaire doesn't have, I have the freedom which the mafia boss couldn't have and my wife is much more virtuous than Mary!
Everything has two sides of the coin as the universe's truth has no definite right or wrong and good or bad.
For example, people who have lost their parents since young would seem to have led a very difficult life, but when they have grown up they are not bound to the burden of taking care of their parents concerning about their health, taking care of their funeral ceremonies and could certainly avoid in-laws problem. One who has lost their parents since young is more mature and would be able to adapt to the society easily.
There are so many infertile couples nowadays. Do you think it is misfortune to not be able to bear child? To be frank it might be something great! You wouldn't have the extra burden of raising a child because you needn't worry about their health, safety, bad peer influences, future spouses and much more other agonizing matters. Everything has it gains and losses and try to view the gains and losses in life through your soul! Please don't let your body and the people who don't live their life through their soul to influence your ability to view your life through your soul!
What is the nature of life? The gains and losses in life and the revolving of people are a part of the nature of life. When your lover leaves, it signifies a brand new love life is ahead of you; when you have your own children, it notifies you that your parents are about to leave' when you buy a house by loaning, you would be able to own a house but at the same time you have to sacrifice by cutting down unnecessary expenditures as you need to allocate money for the house loan; or maybe you were disabled in your past life and if you didn't "die" how would you have such a perfect life now? Everything has its gains and losses, when you gain something you lose something, when someone leave, someone would come and enter into your life. If you're able to comprehend and accept the nature of life, living a life is very easy!
You have to imprint the thought of "letting go" at every waking moment of your life. "Letting go" doesn't tell you not to pursue anything in life, "letting go" is not to be attached with every single thing in life, "letting go" is to live in the moment. Only with this mentality of "letting go" the pasts allows you to focus on your present life; ad by focusing on your present life, it allows you to experience the best in life!
You will begin to "HEAL" when you are "letting go" of the past hurts, forgive those who have wronged to you and learn to forgive yourself for your mistakes.
Most of the religions constantly remind us to "Let go! Let go! Let go!", so what are we supposed to let go of? Let go of the gains and losses in life precisely, let go of holding onto or getting attached over everything in life because all of these stems from the mentality of gaining and losing in life.
However, if you would to look into your soul, our existence was created and brought on to this earth from nothing, the moment when you were born, you have nothing but a bare body. Therefore, regardless whether you're living a wealthy life or a frugal life, it only tells you that every piece of clothing that you put on, every single thing you eat and every penny you spend are all the gains in life. Because when you first set your foot into this world, you brought nothing! even your life is granted by your parents and the God, hence there are only gains but no losses in life.
Since there are only gains but no losses in life, why people are still complaining how miserable their lives are? That is because people blindly live their lives, people work their socks off in order to ensure the well-being of their future so when they gained more, they would certainly think that those are their own possession, if they lose it due to some accident or negligence, they would be in great pain because they mistakenly perceive that those are their possessions.
We don't even have the power to possess our own physical body. Let's think this through, if you have the power to control and possess over it, why can't you do anything when your body shows signs of deterioration?
Hence there's nothing in this world that you can possess entirely. The only thing that you can possess is the pure and earnest love, because that is the only thing that can transform your spirituality, only love brings good without a trace of evil and love can transcend through soul by passing onto your future lifetime. Here's an advice to the people who are severely attached to things in life, "You would never know whether you can live through tomorrow, so why are you so concerned with the unforeseen future and neglect the actual living moment?"
Moreover, the gains and losses in life can't be identified instantly; here are two anecdotes to enlighten you:
There's a businessman who is heading to Italy to associate business, however his secretary who has been serving him for over 10 years lots his passport right before his flight. At that instant moment, he was blinded by anger and fired the secretary on the spot. However, no one could have guessed that the plane that the businessman was supposed to board crashed, at that moment he realized that the mistake that have been made by the secretary saved his life and she is his life saver. The businessman felt sorry and grateful towards the secretary as he visited and offered her with pay increment and promotion to show his sincerity. Unfortunately, the secretary turned down his offer. Now you might wonder why the secretary did that, this is the wonder of karma of gaining and losing, I'll get into that later, let's continue with another story.
There's a stable master, once one of his stallion went missing. His worker was anxious and rushed over to inform him the bad news, however he didn't bother much about it and told his worker there's nothing to worry about. After some time, the missing stallion came back and brought along another wild stallion, the worker was overwhelmed and reported the good news to the stable master, yet this time around he didn't show any response. Later the stable master's son broke his leg while training the wild stallion and still he didn't feel bothered with the fact. Soon after, war was ignited by the neighboring country, the government recruited most of the young adults as armies and his son was excluded due to his broken leg.
These two stories tell you that the gains and losses in life are all destined and it serves as an ordeal by the consequences of your doings. If you have practiced bad, you're destined to lose things that allow you to experience the pain of 'losing' and to make you learn how to cherish. What is contentment? If you have practiced good, you lose something but you're destined to gain that allows you to enjoy the happiness of giving and to understand the underlying meaning of 'giving brings more happiness than receiving'!
In fact, all these gains and losses are essential for transforming your soul as it is all well laid out to serve as a lifelong ordeal. Many doesn't know that the gains and losses in life are predetermined based on the deeds of your past and current life, some might even be fixed karma!
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