The question is how we deal with the "waiting"!
We are constantly waiting for this and that. For the doctor's appointment, for the end of work, for our partner, for the children to come home, for a vacation, for the pain to subside, for us to get well, we are always waiting for something.
And waiting is one of the most difficult things of all.
Remember that moment when the mother said:
"BE PATIENT, SLOW DOWN"!
Especially when it comes to important issues, waiting can "drive us out of our minds", make us "crazy"; by the way, waiting and hope are also siblings, are closely related.
How do we deal with waiting? How do we wait?
What about waiting according to the Buddha's teaching?
According to Buddha, one is happy when one has no desires. However, this requires a certain amount of equanimity and insight, since we all have needs. If we do not desire anything and are not needy, then we consequently wait for nothing, take everything as it comes, with serenity and resting in ourselves.
How do you get to a state where you have no desires?
By finding "enlightenment", by awakening.
Easier said than done. Do you engage in "enlightenment" at all?
"Enlightenment" comes to those who earnestly seek it, you can't really seek it, it comes to us, not we "find" it.
Awakened people have no more desires, they are "wishfully happy". Perhaps they are happy because they are desireless.
Everything is connected, the journey to "enlightenment" is a very individual one, there is no "instruction manual" for it.
No one can teach "enlightenment", not even Buddha.
But we can make ourselves ready for "enlightenment", create the conditions for its realization.
Do you want that?
MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SMALL HAPPINESS WHILE THEY WAIT IN VAIN FOR THE BIG ONE
- PEARL S. BUCK - US WRITER - 1892 TO 1973
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