People sometimes ask, “Why did I live this way?”
I think desperately while looking back on past events.
Certainly, it's affecting who I am now.
However, “analyzing” it and “being able to get out of suffering”
I mean it's a different thing.
For example, suppose there are people who look back on the past and are suffering
If you do a self-analysis
“I wasn't loved in my childhood”
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“That's why I can't trust people”
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“That's why I get lonely”
You can analyze it up to this point, right?
But it's beyond
If you don't move on to “So how do you treat yourself now,”
Life continues to revolve around the same place of “known suffering.”
It may be similar to the story of reincarnation in Buddhism.
Reincarnation is not simply a “story about dying and being reborn.”
The purpose is to break out of the cycle of suffering.
If you move with anger, you will get angry again.
If you choose with anxiety, it will cause anxiety again.
If you live by “being yourself anyway,” you will begin collecting realities that prove it.
“The same suffering due to the same habits of mind” is repeated.
In other words, it is “reincarnation” of “known suffering.”
Buddhism doesn't say “deny the past.”
It's important to know the cause of suffering
However, if you turn suffering into “yourself,”
People unknowingly perceive “known suffering” as reassuring.
Actually, I can rest, but I don't take a break.
I can rely on it but I can't rely on it.
Even though I can refuse, I don't refuse.
When they seem to be happy, they break it for some reason
because
That's because “familiar suffering” is safer
Even if I'm lazy,
Nor is it a bad personality.
It is a “survival method” that has taken a long time and is ingrained in the body and mind
That's why what you need is not to blame yourself,
It's “learning new choices little by little and putting them into practice”
Rest properly
ask for help
Say no to bad things
Don't put yourself on the back burner
“I must not be happy”
Instead, I'm going to remember “choosing to live for me”
Coming out of reincarnation is not a special enlightenment,
I think it's about stopping the “usual way of suffering”
I think it takes courage to do something different than usual
In fact, I'm also gathering courage and living a little selfishly from a way of life where I keep blaming myself.
Start choosing a slightly different step that's all you need
From that moment on, the reincarnation up until now begins to come to an end little by little.