The Living Journal - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

When wake up the next morning and there may be something that you had wished they would be but sadly it never happens. You are expecting something, that is when you have told yourself that things that you had done will get a very promising return. 

What more devastating could be when your love ones or your friends turn against you or when people disappoint you and let you down. Those are the times when you must remind yourself to trust your own judgments and opinions, to keep your life focused on believing in yourself that you must walk the journey yourself and not others.

There will be challenges, difficulty that we need to face and accept the changes to make in our life, and it is depended on how you accept or respond to it. Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you. 

It may not be easy at times, but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are when you had deliberately challenged and sailed through all these circumstances. So when the days come that are filled with frustration, crises and unexpected responsibilities, remember to believe in yourself and the supreme Buddha's Dharma teachings all you want your life to be.

Because the challenges and changes will only help you find the goals that you know are meant to come true for you. When we are lonely or in darkness, let not give up our hopes and faiths and may the astonishing light and wisdom of the enlightened Buddhas and Bodhisattvas be with us whenever and wherever we are. 

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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