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Only when we have no time to meditate, then we actually want to meditate more. When our lives are too comfortable, it’s like living in Heaven. The Heavenly realm is a difficult place to practice. Because there’s no goal, no motive for us to practice spiritually. Only when we’re yearning, when we feel hungry, does the food taste delicious. If you have too much, you develop the rich people’s problem: you can’t enjoy or finish anything. […]
I barely ate anything for the entire week. My body was already very, very weak. And it was unbearably hot at the time. The sun was scorching, and I was ill. I was vomiting because I was sick, feeling uncomfortable and weak, and I could barely walk. Everything was uncomfortable, not good. Even under those conditions, I still managed to see those headless, incomplete Buddha statues; I was so happy. Yeah, even that also counted as suffering and torment. So sometimes when we go to see wooden Buddha statues, we have to go through all that, let alone if we want to see a living Buddha. Of course, sometimes we are tormented a little mentally. Or when our karma finds us, certain situations happen that make us feel tormented. But in fact, it’s all just illusion. Trivial stuff. Nothing big. Only the body and the mind get tormented, not the soul. It doesn’t suffer. Sometimes a little suffering cleanses our soul. […]
