Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Interpretation
Life's difficulties are universal and inescapable, and we should not allow them to disrupt our peace.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of challenges in life, suggesting that both ordinary people and enlightened beings, such as saints or sages, face difficulties. It encourages a resilient mindset, advocating for maintaining one's peace and focus in the face of adversity, rather than being overwhelmed by the hardships that arise.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way
Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer only three times. Instead, he responded with a different question, a story, or some other indirection. Evidently Jesus wants us to work out answers on our own, using the principles that he taught and lived.
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.
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