(Dedicated to Jackie: May U Be Well & Happy!)
1. On Prince Siddhartha's Life Before Renunciation:
Life in the luxuries of the palace
before seeing the the first three of the Four Sights
(Agedness, Sickness, Death & Renunciation):
Most "comfortable" physically and mentally.
Life out of the luxuries of the palace
while seeing the Three Sights:
Most uncomfortable mentally.Life back in the luxuries of the palace
after seeing the Three Sights:
Most uncomfortable mentally.
2. On the Ascetic Gautama's Life After Renunciation:
Life out of the luxuries of the palace:
Most uncomfortable physically and mentally.
3. On the Buddha's Life After Nirvana:
Life in and out of the luxuries of the palace
(everywhere or anywhere):
Most comfortable mentally.
(Physical comfort becomes unimportant.)
4. On the Buddha's "Life" After Parinirvana:
"Life" everywhere or anywhere:
Most comfortable "physically" and mentally.
Note:
The truth that we feel Spiritual cultivation is thus
comfortable and/or uncomfortable not always comfortable;
physically and/or mentally the more comfortable your practice is
here and/or there might be the more complacent your practice is,
is simply because of getting you nowhere to true comfort.
our lack of Enlightenment.We have to cultivate ourselves Move then-
in order to work our way through discomforts, from your illusionary comfort zone
to arrive at true lasting comfort, to the illusionary discomfort zone,
that is Enlightenment. so that you can outgrow
all illusions of (dis)comfort
and arrive at the real...
home.
