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Dear friends, last night I talked about how to react
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when you see things that are not to your liking.
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This is the quotation from the sutra.
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A wise person, when she has some sorrow,
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suffering in herself, some difficulties,
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would like to ask herself these questions.
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I have some sorrow within me.
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What could I do in order to be free
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from the sorrow and to transform it?
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What have I done in order to free myself from that sorrow?
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Have I succeeded in doing so?
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Whom have I asked the assistance
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in helping me in this kind of practice
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so that I can free myself from my sorrow, my suffering?
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Have I consulted my teacher about
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how to transform the suffering in me?
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Have I consulted my brothers and sisters in Dharma
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in order to be free myself about
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how to free myself from the sorrow I presently have?
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The unwise people when they have sorrow
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within them, they ask these questions.
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Who has wronged me?
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Who has caused my suffering, my sorrow?
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How could I do in order to tell people,
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to show people that I am a victim of injustice,
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of wrong doing on the part of the other people?
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How can I justify myself as only.. the fact that I am only the victim.
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the suffering has been caused by him or by her?
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How can I punish him so that I get relief?
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How can I make him, her suffer
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so that I can feel better?
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What could I do so that the person suffer a lot
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so that next time he will not dare to do that to me again?
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To whom should I talk about my suffering, share my suffering?
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Whom can support us in opposing the other person?
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How to make that person not existing
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so that he will not be able to continue to make me suffer?
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Where should I go in order to avoid contact with
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that person so that I don't have to talk to him,
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to see his face, and to work together?
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These are the questions by the unwise person
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every time he has sorrow and suffering within him.
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I guess that the Buddha was trying to say that
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every one of us has the right to suffer.
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But the practitioner, if we call ourselves
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a practitioner, we don't know we do not have
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the right not to practice.
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The non-practitioner, yes, he has the right to suffer
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and the right not to practice.
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But we are a practitioner.
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We have the right to suffer but we do not have
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the right not to practice.
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And the practice is to ask oneself.
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The question is suggested by the Buddha.
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I have sorrow within me.
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What can I do in order to transform
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the suffering and to be free from it?
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What have I done?
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Have I succeeded?
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Whom can I ask to support me in this practice?
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Have I asked my teacher
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how to practice in order to get out of my sorrow?
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Have I asked my Dharma brother, Dharma sister,
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how to practice in order to free myself from my sorrow?
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I think this may be very helpful to
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write down this questions
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to read again every time you find yourself caught
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in the sorrow, the suffering.
