Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
Days of clarity, days of cloud
JetsFan366
Explorer
I don't know if this is a familiar experience for anyone.
I have days where everything buddhist makes sense and life is sublime. Bad things can happen, I can have bouts of negative emotions and I'm able to just observe them and let them go. I can look at my neighbor and see their struggles and feel close to strangers knowing that in our struggles, we really are all in it together.
And then there are the other days. When every little thing gets to me, I meditate and can't get out of the though-stream, I'm irritable and curt and the whole time, I'm kicking myself for being that way. And I also know that 'kicking myself for being that way' isn't helping things, but that doesn't make it go away.
I don't know if this is something to meditate on, just accept, work on, etc. Any thoughts?
Many thanks-
TWF
I have days where everything buddhist makes sense and life is sublime. Bad things can happen, I can have bouts of negative emotions and I'm able to just observe them and let them go. I can look at my neighbor and see their struggles and feel close to strangers knowing that in our struggles, we really are all in it together.
And then there are the other days. When every little thing gets to me, I meditate and can't get out of the though-stream, I'm irritable and curt and the whole time, I'm kicking myself for being that way. And I also know that 'kicking myself for being that way' isn't helping things, but that doesn't make it go away.
I don't know if this is something to meditate on, just accept, work on, etc. Any thoughts?
Many thanks-
TWF
0
Comments
Perhaps you are comparing today to yesterday too much. Just forget about what happened yesterday (or even earlier today) and try to be in the present moment with whatever is happening. Then when you are really in the present moment you won't be able to judge whether you are having a good day or a bad day you'll just be experiencing reality as it is without labels.
With Metta,
Guy
Now is now, if we try to aim for some ideal state that we have experienced before, it will only cloud our minds with expectations (and naturally disappointments) and bring agitation when one doesn't get to experience that "ideal" state again.
So what I found helpful is to just let those experiences come and go, be it when you're "in your element!" or those days when you feel like you woke up on the wrong side of your bed. Just like watching clouds... white, dark, heavy, light clouds float across the sky.
When we don't judge them as "good" or "bad", there is no problem. And everything is just the way it is.
I hope that helps.:)