Don’t get attached to your work.
November 1, 2008
Buddhists speak of a Noble Truth – that life is suffering. Not necessarily physical suffering – like when you have a bad back – but the ordinary everyday suffering that comes with being human. Call it suffering or call it sadness, disease or discomfort. The fact of the matter is that we all die, we age, we divorce, we drift apart from those we love. Our teeth fall out, we get wiped out in the stock market. We don’t get what we want and it makes us sad. We do get what we want and it makes us sad.
This is not suffering. This is just pain. Suffering has a dimension beyond pain.
We label things as problems and react. When we identify problems in our lives and react to them, we generally create suffering.
