Right Understanding is Easy, Right Effort is Hard?

thickpaper

I have had another mini-step forward on my path:

I think that Darma is pretty easy to understand. There is nothing "hidden deep" and the hardest part is to understand how emptiness and interconnectivity condition experience via interdependence.

The hard part of Dharma is the practice. And that is probably the hardest thing anyone can do.

Just my opinion.

SpinyNorman2

The hard part of Dharma is the practice. And that is probably the hardest thing anyone can do.

I think practice is more difficult when we don't understand.

Spiny

SherabDorje

Intellectual understanding is easy. Sitting is hard.

AMH

Ah yes, I have added to that with time. I know that when i first learned about Buddhism the concepts seemed simple compared and elegant. Then sitting was hard. Whew it was hard, well there are days it is still hard because practice in anything is challenging. So with that some things got easier, then I think I have gotten to a new part of what is hard about practice, (I am assuming many here are westerners) your world view, problem solving skills, interactions with others, etc. change on a fundamental level. You are not looking through the same eyes as others. Although many will react positively there are some that will not, hence a stress on the path to continue and where our sanghas are important to support our right effort.

All this is just my experience however,

taiyaki

the real work is in the everyday interaction. just living life.

so you're absolutely right.

Jeffrey

Not understanding is difficult because there is a disconnect between the messages we get from the environment and what we are holding onto.

Right effort is difficult because we don't feel energy and are suffering because we are unable to get away from the list of things to do into just doing it. We reject ourselves perhaps or just feel blocked.

Jeffrey

Right effort requires purification to have a feeling.. metta and so forth

betaboy

The hard part of Dharma is the practice. And that is probably the hardest thing anyone can do.

I think practice is more difficult when we don't understand.

Spiny

I am not so sure. One understands very clearly that meditation is better than wasting time chatting on the net. Yet one does the latter 9 times out of ten. Right action doesn't follow right view. Gurdjieff could be relevant here.