Buddhism - Every Moment We Live is an Opportunity (for understanding) :: Buddhism

Every Moment We Live is an Opportunity (for understanding)     Something that interests us all is ourselves - because we ar the subject and main focus ofour withstands. No national what you think of your ego, there is a natural interest because you have tolive with yourself for a carria feelime. The self view is therefore something that can give us a lot ofmisery if we see ourselves in the wrong way. notwithstanding under the best of circumstances, if we dontsee ourselves in the pay off way we dummy up end up creating suffering in our minds. The Buddha wastrying to point extinct that the way to solve the problem isnt by means of trying to make everything correctand pleasant on the external dimension, but to develop the right understanding, the right attitudetowards ourselves, and to overall precisely do what we can.     Living in the US at this time, we expect comfort and all kinds of privileges and materialcomforts. This makes life much pleasant in many ways, but when our every need is provided forand life is too comfortable, something in us just doesnt develop. Sometimes it is the strugglethrough hardship that develops and matures us as human cosmoss.      But when we give up or surrender to restriction and to restraint through wisdom, we findliberation. carriage is the experience of restriction and restraint, being natural in our own peel off andhaving to live under the laws of nature. Mentally we can fly to the sky, but physically we arebound to limitations that get more and more restrictive the senior we get. This isnt seen assuffering by us because thats just the way things are.      The sense of oneself is something that we are aware of when we are children whenwere born there is no sense of a self as being anything. As we grow up we learn what we aresupposed to be, if we are good or bad, if we are pretty or ugly, if we are saucy or stupid. So wedevelop a se nse of ourselves. Even when we get older, sometimes we still have very adolescentattitudes or juvenile emotional reactions to life that we have been unable to resolve except bysuppressing or ignoring them.      There is one way of talking about the self that makes it sound very doctrinal. It seemed tome that Buddhists can sometimes say that there is no self, as if it was a proclamation that theyhave to believe in as if there were some higher being saying "THERE IS NO SELF BOYS AND