Most important asset a man has is his set of problems.
Passenger on Duality of nature
Well, you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the Sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
Hunting a meaning in life.
Have you ever thought what is the most important thing in your life? You may have, and if you haven't you can just do that now. Write down five or ten or one, most important thing in your life? And I would say that is the biggest problem in your life. And the answers are variable. For a mother it can be her kid. For a singer it can be his biggest hit. For a astronomer it can be a memory of earth seen from space station, or his space suit. For a student it can be the final year grade. Mental or physical, it is a thing. And what is common to all these things?
When we look at this with mindfulness we can understand, this is the most important problem in our lives. First we need to gain this most important thing. Once we gain we need to maintain this. Sometimes gain is hard, sometimes maintain is hard. Yet we do not even feel this is a problem as we are so much attached to this one thing and even thinking about it gives us pleasure.
So if someone asked what is the most important thing in your life, and you have an answer I want you to know that is your biggest problem.
Negative or positive Frame doesn't matter
You may ask me why? Why we should frame this thing with negativity? Why we cannot frame this with positivity. Yes we can, and there is no harm doing it. Problems are positive things. Even sadness and horror is a genere on its own. We enjoy (but call it empathy) watching california fires. And horrible floods watching people being washed away. We do watch brutal crimes being commited. Why? Are we insane? No, we need to identify things, we need information, we crave new experience, and problems provide us opportunity. Identifying things itself is a plesure on its own.
A world without problems is boring i.e. most important thing in life is your problems
Case of a Prisoner
Imagine a prisoner. That is someone with no problems. Literally, he is given food. A place to live. Nothing to do. And for someone who is constantly used to stimulation of problems, it is going to hurt so much. He is going to suffer only because he is loving his problems in outside world. Someone can say it is freedom that he is lacking. But imagine for some reason you put a monk, or a yogi in prison? Is he going to suffer? I don't think so. He is used to live without problems, so a prison is not going to hurt this man. There is nothing to explore. No information. Just bare self. Can you imagine what will happen if you are given immortality? I bet being in a prison would be better.
Case of a film
Imagine you start to watch a film. Action animation drama. Any genera for that matter. If you look at this from a back I can say every film starts with characters, and in the begining they start to face a problem. A ****g big problem that you and me might never face in our lives. And they struggle with this problem for 125 minutes and finally they either win or lose. And guess what the film ends there. There is no enthusiasm for anyone to continue another half an hour of their normal lives. It is the problem made the film watchable. Imagine someone make a movie about normal two hours of your life. Do you think it is going to make box office? It would if you cracked 3n+1 during that hour. But I bet you would not 😁
Case of a mother.
Lets say you are a newly married or a parent. And you expect a baby. You wish to make this kid help him herself to become successful beyond imagination. Lets say you want him to be an actor. And there would be lots of difficulties and milestones. You have to cry and laugh the entire 20-25 year journey. And you may or may not be successful. Lets assume you did. You did make your son the most attractive successful person you wish him to become.
Now lets go back to the day your son was born. And a fairy appeared in front of you and grant you a wish. You can either go through all the trouble of 20 years of painful endurance of life's hardships or she can just give you end product now! She can drop you from that moment directly to the place where you are successful at the end.
If you are an athlete you can imagine you are given a chance to have the medal on the podium, but you wouldn't have the memory of how you ended up there.
Will that make you happy?
I think maybe a little but as you can see, it reduces the value. Although we think that the plesure is in the goal, really speaking plesure is in the hardships, or in your problems. This again is evidence most important things you have currently in your asset basket is your problems. Not the money or the Mortgage.
Fundementals of problems.
I am not going detals of how the fundamentals of problems are created. That is why the blog. This whole effort of my past year is to let you understand fundementals of your problems. But, if I put it in a one scentence it would be following.
Begining of any problem is identification of its variables.
Mindfulness is the investigation of self for us to understand how it really happens in real time. Some fundamentals of this process is duality of nature, objects of mind, and values.
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