Make yourself free
What we lack for "enlightenment" is a liberated thinking. The old patterns, which keep us from our perfection, fears, worries, hardships, even real fear pervades us again and again, the uncertainties of life are solidified in our thought palace, must first be smashed according to the teacher of all teachers. Whoever can banish these poisons from his thinking, unimagined joys await him, the infinite freedom that awakening offers us.
Finally become "master" of your ego, of your thoughts, of your life. Because it doesn't matter if you go through life laughing or crying, the world will continue to turn regardless, not taking note of your situation. If at all, your change of mind will be noticed by your closest environment, but not even that is certain. Only for you there will be a change, because from the awakening of your consciousness there will be a superiority against all possible strokes of fate (and believe me, they will come). But if you are ready to take responsibility for your incarnation and your karma, you must (also) inevitably deal with the teachings of the Indian prince, because otherwise life is just a sequence of events that leave no impression.
Have faith in your ego and in your existence, this world does not have to be only torment and fear, no. Thoughts are our being, according to Buddha we shape our world with them. So, do you want to use the power of positive thinking?
At least as long as you, as a "feel-good Buddhist", have not yet set out on the path to awakening, as long as you still think in the learned categories that you cannot (yet) leave? It is only up to you whether you consider the rainy day as "depressing" or as "cozy", otherwise nothing changes.
Nothing we can change, but our way of looking at things, which already is, and thus the feedback our thoughts leave on our "soul". But once you have learned to think "life-affirming", you will also be able to follow the teachings of Buddha more easily, then you will be able to dive further and deeper into philosophy.
Who thinks "positive", who thinks "negative" (according to Buddha there is also no "positive" and also no "negative"), nothing we can change, everything will come exactly as it has to come, so why get upset, why burden the thinking. Better to think about the next step, which would be to accept "enlightenment" as a personal goal.
We also attract the things which we send out! The way is therefore the goal!
Wandering goal has reached, of the suffering freely, after long rolling, freely he stands to all sides, all fetters are fallen
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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