Buddhism - Every Moment We Live is an Opportunity (for understanding) :: Buddhism

E precise minute of arc We Live is an Opportunity (for understanding)     Something that interests us exclusively is ourselves - because we are the subject and principal(prenominal) focus ofour lives. No matter what you think of yourself, there is a immanent interest because you generate tolive with yourself for a lifetime. The self view is thusly something that fuck give us a lot ofmisery if we memorise ourselves in the wrong mode. Even under the best of circumstances, if we dontsee ourselves in the right way we still end up creating suffering in our minds. The Buddha wastrying to point out that the way to solve the problem isnt through trying to make everything rightand pleasant on the external dimension, alone to develop the right understanding, the right attitudetowards ourselves, and to overall yet do what we can.     Living in the US at this time, we expect comfort and all kinds of privileges and materialcomforts. This makes li fe more than pleasant in many ways, unless when our every need is provided forand life is too comfortable, something in us just doesnt develop. Sometimes it is the strugglethrough hardship that develops and matures us as military man universes.      But when we give up or surrender to restriction and to command through wisdom, we findliberation. Life is the experience of restriction and restraint, being innate(p) in our own skin andhaving to live under the laws of nature. Mentally we can fly to the sky, but physically we arebound to limitations that get more and more restrictive the older we get. This isnt seen assuffering by us because thats just the way things are.      The sense of oneself is something that we are informed of when we are children whenwere born there is no sense of a self as being anything. As we grow up we take in what we aresupposed to be, if we are good or bad, if we are sanely or ugly, if we are smart or stupid. So wedevelop a sense of ourselves. Even when we get older, sometimes we still have very adolescentattitudes or childish emotional reactions to life that we have been futile to resolve except bysuppressing or ignoring them.      There is one way of talking about the self that makes it sound very doctrinal. It seemed tome that Buddhists can sometimes say that there is no self, as if it was a proclamation that theyhave to believe in as if there were some higher being saying "THERE IS NO SELF BOYS AND