Mystic 1800

We are, what we think we are, that's what the Buddha said - and no matter how you understand this statement, it's true - and you can take it literally. Now, here's the first problem: instead of trusting ourselves, and believing in ourselves - we believe what other tell us. You'll maybe say now, that a person is defined by his/her environment, therefore - there's no choice. That's not true of course; even though we're define by our environment - there's a choice, actually, a path on which we can step; the path of self-exploration, - self-realization. So, the exploration of our inner world. The realization who we are, and what's our purpose. And this realization shouldn't be just something shallow - but should be deep - philosophical and spiritual experience.
    When realize who you are, you won't need grasp on the world anymore - and hoping people will say something good about you, so that you could feel a bit better, and you won't have to hope, that people won't say something bad, which could made you sad.
    This is the point on which you know who you are - they have right to their opinion - but you know, so you don't have to (and you don't) react emotional.

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There is so many things, for which we all can be grateful, if for nothing else, we can start, with the realization, that we're - by some miracle - alive, and conscious. Where is life and conscious, it's always potential, of happiness (and even enlightenment), so we can be grateful, even if only for that potential.

In dark times of my life, I was grateful for light days and short periods of happiness; when things were much better, I slowly forgot to be grateful. Instead of that, I became greedy.

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The realization of reality would lead into liberation. People have no idea how far from reality they are. We have no idea, what a big illusion is this, what we perceive as "reality".
    I won't say I'm some kind of exception, some kind of superman, who is liberated, free, illuminated, enlightened in state of nirvana, - no, I'm not. I'm not even close.

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What I understand under word "relationship"* is simply willingness to share life with another person, it's just like friendship with little differences.
   * I'm talking about intimate relationships through whole post; so when I write -relationship- please have in mind, that I'm thinking about this particular type of relationships.

First of first, I believe love should be part of relationship, however, love is much wider than relationship itself. I actually see quite a lot of selfishness and limitations (+hate,jealousy,etc..) in many relationships, while I consider love to be wide, open and pure (as I wrote about it).

We could imagine relationship as soup, and love is water. So it's (main) ingredient, but it's quite modified, and mixed with other things.

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Lets talk about suffering, about difficulties in life and about "overcoming" them, shall we? Well, I can't imagine with what else to start, if not with Buddha's first noble truth, which saying (simply enough) that life is suffering, meaning simply that sooner or later we'll suffer somehow. Buddhism of course, offering answer on how to end suffering, actually - that's the fourth noble truth.

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