| | What are those lofty and impossible to match values you're referring to?
If you're struggling with doubt about whether waking up is possible for you, it may be useful to reflect on all the people who have found that freedom, starting with the historic Buddha (who like you was only human) through the thousands of people who found enlighten,net in different ways In the years since and up to our time where you can talk to people who have reached this goal and varoous levels of attainment leading up to it, right here at the DhO. If all those people can do it, many of them lay people like yourself, living the day-today life just as you do, with similar kinds of worries and troubles, then surely, so can you and so can I.
I think that working through the doubts and the hardship is a part of the path. Whatever you are coming up against is a part of your path. How can you be free of suffering if you don't see all the many ways in which you suffer? It only feels as daunting and frustrating as it needs to be for you to see the cause of the frustration and let go of it. Once you do, it will no longer be frustrating in that way (for at least a couple of hours). It's all there in order to teach you and to show you the way to be free. |