Don't be so frustrated, just live every moment with all your heart. Whatever you have to do, do it with total devotion. Have faith in God and the grand plan of the entire universe.
Change or not change, they are all in the universal consciousness. So we just eat them all and digest them, or we make chapatis out of them. "Therefore, be forever unchanged and balanced in the face of changes, upheavals, sorrow, or happiness."
We live through many changes, upheavals, all the time. But even changes are just small things in the universe, in the whole cosmic consciousness of God or of our Real Self. Just like here, the light, the fan, the umbrella, me, you, everyone, are all sitting in this room. Whoever comes here, whatever it is, is all in this room.
Sometimes, we experience suffering, illness and trouble, we think all these are karma. However, we should realize that they are blessings in disguise too.
Even if you lose all things, so what? You came to the world with nothing, you have not lost anything. You have gained so much since you have come to this world. You brought nothing into the world but you have gain all things, you have grown up a big person, you gain from the world, you take many things from the world. So even if we lose everything, it belongs to the world anyhow, it originally did not belong to us.
The world is full of suffering, it is not God's making. It is not the law of karma that makes trouble, as we have learned to know. It is not the law of cause and retribution that makes us reap what we sow. It is our own ignorance of the real world that brings us all kinds of unhappiness. We keep chasing the shadow and wanting it to be straight, to be more full, to be more beautiful, to be more proportionate, but it is only a shadow! If we get to know the real person, we care not what the shadow looks like. Similarly, if we know the real world, how beautiful, how eternal, how free it is of every disaster and suffering, we care not whether this ephemeral drama is going on, because we know this is a distorted picture being projected of the real and beautiful world. Therefore, whatever it looks like, it doesn't concern us that much. L.A. USA in English Apr. 3 1993.
We live in this world for many, many, many, many thousands of lifetimes, and we collect a lot of enemies. Sometimes we make mistakes and we disturb other people, we make other people suffer, or we kill other people. So, this life it comes back. If this time we don't protect ourselves with the power of God, then everything can harm us because millions of billions of troubles are waiting for us.
Suffering is not created by circumstances; poverty does not make us feel pained. It is because we do not know that we are God that we are affected.
We make ourselves suffer because we identify ourselves with our mistakes, our successes, our failures, our this, that and the other, and the circumstances that affect us.
Maybe in the last life we have not learn well the compassionate lesson. Maybe we have not been sympathetic to our fellow beings. So, this life we have to suffer a little in order to know what the suffering means. Okay? It's very seldom that we have compassion without suffering. If without personal suffering we already feel great sympathy to other fellow beings, then we're fortunate. And then, our life would be spared a lot of suffering.
Success or failure in this world is not the important objective. Sometimes failure is success and success is just failure. We need the wisdom eye to judge.
Sometimes in some circumstances we are able to control ourselves, but with some great effort, and some other times we don't want to control ourselves or we can't control ourselves. In either way you just do what is good for you at that moment. Okay? Don't worry much about the emotion. It is only the waves on the surface of the ocean. It is not the ocean's fault. It is the wind. It is the rotation of the earth that makes the waves. So the ocean cannot blame itself all the time, and says that he makes waves, he makes troubles for the boats and he makes trouble for the people, etc. He cannot help himself. The ocean cannot help herself or himself. Is it him ocean or she ocean?
God only arranges situations that will benefit us. Sometimes, we blame God for doing something wrong, but the fact is it's we who are ignorant of the truth. We do not know the correctness of God. We see only the outside and not the inside.
Why is it that life is not very good for most of the people in this world? It is because they do not have any ideas or their ideas are not right. Some want to be a boss, but they don't know how to be one so their business is not good. It is all because they do not know how to make decisions. Some people do not like to decide for themselves. They don't trust themselves. All through their lives they depend on other people. Neither of these cases is good. Do you understand? We have to find a solution. If the situation is like this, we shall change it whenever we can think of a way. If we have tried our best and still cannot change it, then we shall see. We still need to put in our best effort. Otherwise, this world will become worse and worse.