Reading Highlight

Thinking attempts to fit life comfortably into our old reasoned patterns of separation, problem resolution, and self-fulfillment. Our thinking keeps avoiding the issue of struggle by focusing on what we are lacking. “Yes, I want to end struggle, but first I must develop more samadhi, tranquility, and balance, then I will be capable of overcoming suffering.” We believe we have to prepare sufficiently to meet our struggles and never realize that much of our suffering comes from that very preparation. Whenever there is more to do there is a built-in tension with the present, and that is a form of struggle.