Lack of sense

[faoife]

I'm trying to figure something out here... How come the things that have to be done for self preservation hurt the most? I mean, if something is that necessary to keep you sane, surely doing it shouldn't drive you to the brink of madness... It just doesn't seem to make an awful lot of sense. Fair enough, human beings tend not to make sense most of

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[meihua]

I think these things hurt because they are usually about needing to let go of something which is held on to too tightly. That can be letting go of a type of feeling, an experience or a way of looking at the world.

Modern life instructs us in a 'clutching' mentality which is about holding on to and grabbing many things.

When you put the clutching mentality aside (this too needs letting go of) then you are able to let things pass in and out of your hands in a natural way and there is not as much suffering. :)

Then, doing the things that you need to do is as simple as drinking if you're thirsty.

[faoife]

Darling, how on earth do you make so much sense? And yet right now, doing what you speak of seems as unreachable for me as Venus. I suppose its easy to know what to do. The hard part comes in knowing how to do it. But such is life I suppose.

[meihua]

No, no, not at all! Doing is very easy. *grin*

What's difficult is thinking all at once about all that you have to do and walking through the experience in your head of "doing it all at once". It's kind of like looking at a long journey and thinking, "Oh no, that's such a difficult journey - how can I ever do all of that?" You can't swallow your entire meal in one gulp.

Answer, of course, is that you set off anyway. And next time you stop to think about it, you can say to yourself "Oh my, there's still a long way to go, but it's not as long as it was - if I keep on doing what I just did, I'm bound to get there."