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compassion
October 2007 
roadblocks
Posted on Mar 13th, 2006
by 
Karuna
Karuna
“Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are actually yours, specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else.
The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself. You are not going to go the right direction unless there is something pricking you in the side, telling you: “Look here! This way!”. That part of you loves you so much that it doesn’t want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up. It will make you suffer greatly if you don’t listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose. How much suffering, how much difficulty it brings is immaterial in relation to the fulfillment and satisfaction you will have when you actually struggle and see the fruits of the struggle.
So, you can look at your problems from the perspective of the issues themselves, problems that are difficulties to be gotten rid of as fast as possible, with the least struggle. Or you can look at them from the perspective of the guide in you, the part of you that is guiding you to yourself. If you look at them from that more accurate, more finely tuned perspective, the new issues that then arise have a new value. They have nutrition that you need to digest.
The whole process works with the utmost purity, the most complete intelligence and compassion. The most difficult things that happen to you, on the deepest level, are the most compassionate things.”
-author unknown
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This was what worrying me today. the meaningless of suffering in a way. A lot of things cause pain for the soul beyond compare. If you accept life as it is it becomes easy, na! thank you Karuna for sharing this wonderful thought!
I came to same quote later.Yet I found it carrying a new meaning. What sufferings do we undergo so that we can reach a better version of Ourselves.
The most difficult things that happen to you, on the deepest level, are the most compassionate things.”
Especially this sentence: it carries all the value of life!
This is a lovely, yet heavy sentiment, dear one. So glad you found it. ANd I would ask you what YOU think of it? I read your first blog posting about how you wanted to practice for 6 months.
* insert eye rolling and amuzed smirk here*
Dearest Karuna, welcome to life, and realize, there is no rehearsal!
If find these words by some “unkown author” helpful, reminding and valid, but I want to hear YOUR thoughts too. In fact this particular post emphasizes that the hurdle you face- this feeling comfortable in writing a blog, is by definition here, “…designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else.”
So, c’mon already. just open your heart, find something that moves you and write! Really, one of the most popular web cams is of someone’s house cat for crying out loud! Your words need only be yours and those who need them will find you.
To paraphrase a cheesy movie, ” If you write it, they will read.”
Blessings and hugs,
Elo
i see your perspective, elo, that you see this as heavy, but it doesn't feel heavy to me.
“…The whole process works with the utmost purity, the most complete intelligence and compassion. The most difficult things that happen to you, on the deepest level, are the most compassionate things.”
i actually think this is a pretty positive sentiment. It's saying, “It's all good.”
i'm drawn to writings like this, and another poem i posted in this blog, guest house, because it puts the challenging stuff in perspective, and it holds a light up to it.
maybe it is heavy subject matter, but i think the ways it's explored, it doesn't leave you heavy. i don't know, does this leave you feeling heavy?
as for your comment on my first blog post,
i was just being real about the fact that this was new territory for me. i've kept a journal since i was ten years old, and i did a lot of writing in college, and creative writing since then. so, writing is not entirely new to me, although i always feel like a beginner.
i've just started reading blogs, really in the past few months, and there's some good stuff out there. participating here at zaadz, i've had the inner question, “to blog, or not to blog?” and for awhile, even after getting across the initial hurdle, i would post something, and then delete it. for me, if i'm going to do something, i'd like to do it in a manner that feels good to me. and, hey, i like to do things beautifully, and set a tone that feels natural, and all that stuff.
having never written for public consumption, i'm doing it here for the first time.
i see it as potentially a great practice, and i am just noticing what is arising.
and you are right, it is about opening my heart.
and i know that i said that i've given myself permission to write crap, but i still loathe the idea of actually writing crap.
you say,” if you write it, they will read”
well, that's what i'm afraid of.
i'm not really afraid. that's too strong of a word.
i'm just aware that it's going to take me awhile to find my voice in this arena,
and i know that i'll probably be all over the map for awhile.
and, ….i don't want to write crap.
:)