I’ve been thinking a lot about this concept lately. I am always feeling overwhelmed or rushing to get from place to place and squeeze as much as I can into a day. In that I find myself thinking that the real problem is a lack of patience and stepping away from the concept of focusing on the breath. Buddhism is the practice of patience through the breath. Patience is not necessarily waiting for anything but simply allowing things to happen as they will. This is a huge area of stress for me. I don’t allow things to happen, in spite of the reality that allowing things to happen is how my life has come to the point where it currently is.
The key to happiness, I believe, is patience. I truly feel that allowing that to guide me will permit me to live a life that is blessed by circumstance.
what I must work to realize is how antithetical this is to the world and many of the people around me. I would dare to say most. I am however blessed with a partner of the same mentality. I struggled against the logic she professed, until realizing the silence and the patience she fought for in our lives was perhaps everything I had right in my life that I allowed myself to turn away from.