life is never a problem only thinking is a problem more accurately: thinking creates the idea of problems let’s say you are flying to care for an elderly parent on the plane you worry you plan, many ideas circulate perhaps it feels tortuous once you are caring for your parent it is not a problem it is simply the thing that is happening sure, it may be painful, even excruciating at times but not a problem problem means: the mind has a story that things should be different if you are caring for your parent, or your child, or doing some task at work you would rather not do, and you are convinced things should be different, look deeper within: a part of you knows: this is simply how it is, and you don’t have control, and you can meet this moment. Ram Dass’ teacher, Neem Karoli Baba, they called him Maharaji,
would often say “oh, Ram Dass, don’t you see it’s all perfect” and he meant at least two things: one: none of life is a problem, only thinking makes it seem like a problem two: there is a larger pattern at play, which most of us don’t see, at least not very often, and in that larger pattern, all of this has a purpose we don’t need to figure that purpose out only learn to relax a little with the mystery of it, to play with the idea of trusting the mystery of it, wondering what it is our soul might learn from the curriculum of this moment so we have this choice… trust our thinking mind, and make life a problem, or choose, even in the dark, to accept the soul’s curriculum p.s. this doesn’t mean we repress, or gaslight, or minimize anyone’s suffering, including our own: a wound always needs witnessing, to be seen and cared about, or it will live in us as trauma and then after the witnessing as the life-cycle of the wound unfolds what will it teach us?