We have the seeds, the potential in us for understanding, love, compassion, and insight, as well as the seeds of anger, hate, and greed. By being aware of your in-breath and out-breath you generate the energy of mindfulness, so you can con- tinue to cradle the suffering. Every day we go a little farther in that direction, and eventually we realize that suffering and happi- ness are not two separate things. When we suffer, we tend to think that suffering is all there is at that moment, and happiness belongs to some other time or place.

Looking Deeply fear of what might happen if we do the wrong thing, or fear of being hurt by or of hurting someone we care about. How do we cultivate our own metaphorical lotus flowers and emerge triumphantly from the darkness, you may ask? Perhaps we are working hard at success in one area, but our deepest aspiration is to work in another field or to help people in another way.If you want the beautiful lotus flower of happiness, you must also deal with the dirt and the mud of suffering. Then, if the day after tomorrow you have a strong emotion, you’ll have confidence that you can handle the strong emotion. The remainder of class we practiced yoga poses of strength in surrender—like the lotus flower that emerges victoriously clean above murky waters—representative of how each of us can overcome life’s painful challenges. Both of these preconceptions cause suffering because they ignore the reality that life and death always go together. Sometimes the hidden gems of a dark time emerge with hindsight but not during the challenges…Love you!

One of the most important benefits of suffering is that, by experiencing it, we come to appreciate the value of reality. This blog will dive into easy-to-follow techniques that help cultivate mindfulness, allowing you to focus on the here and now.

Additionally, he continued, “Mindfulness protects us, our families, and our society, and ensures a safe and happy present and a safe and happy future. Love needs to be nurtured and fed to survive; and our suffering also survives because we enable and feed it. We become aware of what is going on in the present moment, in our body, in our perceptions, and around us. It is located in the city of Folsom, California, about 20 miles northeast of Sacramento, the state capitol of California. But unless and until we’re able to face our suffering, we can’t be present and available to life, and happiness will continue to elude us.

Electronic distractions not only fail to help heal the underlying suffering, they may contain stories or images that feed our craving, jealousy, anger, or despair. But when we look around we see there are people who have plenty of these things, yet they aren’t happy. Rather, being mindful allows us to experience hard moments such as conflict, stress or failure—to learn and grow from these experiences—rendering them less acute and more manageable. There are those who have lost their biological parents, or never knew them, and have no chance to connect with them in person. The key is to learn to transform your suffering and not ignore it, for which Hanh lays out a detailed plan on how to do this with various helpful techniques.

Instead, hold on to your true purpose and remind yourself, “Lis- tening like this, my sole aim is to help the other person to suffer less.

With mindful breathing, you can recognize the presence of a pain- ful feeling, just like an older sibling greets a younger sibling. The Lotus Flower, a symbol of awakening in Zen Buddhism and other spiritual traditions, blooms in the murkiest, muddiest swamps. Some say that suffering is only an illusion or that to live wisely we have to “transcend” both suffering and joy.Instead of stopping and looking deeply, we are running as far away as possible from the loneliness, grief, sadness, anger, and emptiness that we feel we can’t bear. In this article, we will cover what No Mud No Lotus means, where it came from and how it can help you grow towards happiness. MindOwl Founder – My own struggles in life have led me to this path of understanding the human condition.