205-You are what you are - Buddhism in daily life

You are what you are

We are just the way we are, simple but robust, human existence is an obsession, ego a permanent attachment.

What are we? WHY do we like to suppress our true personality and take on a role instead, because we think that we cannot show our true self, that we should not live as and what we are.

Who we really are, we probably do not know, few people think about it, most are superficial, greedy, aggressive and they hate, precisely because they do not know who they are.

No matter how hard you try, you can never be anyone other than the person fate has designed you to be, we can't escape destiny anyway. According to Buddha, we must accept all occurrences, living beings and things as they are. We suffer because we imagine life to be different from what it is, and then we experience one disappointment after another.

Nothing we can do about it, so there is no point in being angry about things, only acceptance makes a real difference in our being.

But who knows who he/she is, few of them think about it, they just live, they go from one distraction to another, they want one pleasure after another, they have no interest in getting to the real core of the problems. The real difficulty is that "one" prefers to distract oneself, to numb oneself, that "one" tries to escape instead of facing one's own transience.

So for my part, I was very unsure of who I was for a very long time, because my life was turbulent. My time in China was very defining for me, Buddhism struck me like a bolt of lightning, here was a philosophy that spoke to me, that answered my fundamental questions, a teaching that offered me a home.

More and more the words of Buddha occupied me, the teaching penetrated me, filled me. Slowly but surely I realized who I am spiritually, namely a Buddhist.

And until today the matter has evolved, today I talk about "Buddhism in everyday life ", have become a teacher, who would have thought? Everything has changed, more and more I realize what and who I really am.

Who do you think you are? What is your role that you play? And will it stay that way, or will you give it some serious thought?

The journey is the destination!

I divide my thoughts into two groups, the category of desire, ill will and violence, which are opposite to the group of renunciation, the thoughts of benevolence and the thoughts of kindness

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero.

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