Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
Interpretation
We often endure suffering quietly instead of confronting it, allowing it to control our lives.
This quote suggests that many people tend to be overly accommodating to their pain and suffering, avoiding direct confrontation with it. Instead of addressing and overcoming these challenges, they let suffering take the lead in their lives, which may prevent them from living fully and joyfully.
In practice
In a discussion about mental health awareness, this quote can emphasize the importance of addressing suffering rather than ignoring it.
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.
It is not about how much you give, it is about how much you can let go with your mind.
It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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