Why life is miserable ?

Let me first say my own opinion

I'm always puzzled by a question. Will there be someone in this world who doesn't suffer out of anything? When I was a kid, whenever I'm struck with some challenges, I look at the people walking on the street, and funnily I wish to choose their life! if there was an option! There's a favorite saying, "Always the other side of the river looks greener & better". Most of us thinks someone else life is better than ours in someway. It's a chain! everybody thinks the same.

When I was a kid, and when I go to schools without completing my homeworks, I envy the cab drivers who drops me at the schools. I look at him and think, what a life! No home works, No pressure, No mysery!. I was never able to guess what might be running in his own mind. Now, After I grew up, I understand what might be running on people minds. A cabie looking at the school kids would only think, "Those trouble free, enjoyable times, might never come again in our life again." Unless you are awake and conscious, every little challenge in life would become a mysery and suffering. You chose the blue pill! You gotta suffer!. The realised ones are out of these. Just find what JK says about it.

Why life is so hard and miserable? : JK explains

There are so many varieties and complications and degrees of suffering that makes our lives miserable. We all know that. You know it very well, and we carry this burden right through life, practically from the moment we are born until the moment we collapse into the grave.If we say that it is inevitable, then there is no answer; if you accept it, then you have stopped inquiring into it. You have closed the door to further inquiry; if you escape from it, you have also closed the door. You may escape into man or woman, into drink, amusement, into various forms of power, position, prestige, and the internal chatter of nothingness. Then your escapes become all-important; the objects to which you fly assume colossal importance. So you have shut the door on sorrow also, and that is what most of us do.

Now, can we stop escape of every kind and come back to suffering? That means not seeking a solution for suffering. There is physical suffering-a toothache, stomachache, an operation, accidents, various forms of physical sufferings which have their own answer. There is also the fear of future pain, which would cause suffering. Suffering is closely related to fear and, and without comprehension of these two major factors in life, we shall never comprehend what it is to be compassionate, to love. So a mind that is concerned with the comprehension of what is compassion, love, and all the rest of it must surely understand what is fear and what is sorrow.

Meditation is the ending of sorrow, the ending of thought which breeds fear and sorrow—the fear and sorrow in daily life, when you are married, when you go to business. In business you must use your technological knowledge, but when that knowledge is used for psychological purposes—to become more powerful, occupy a position that gives you prestige, honour, fame—it breeds only antagonism, hatred; such a mind can never possibly understand what truth is. Meditation is the understanding of the way of life, it is the understanding of sorrow and fear—and going beyond them.Talks & Dialogues Saanen 1968, p 94

J Krishnamurthi.

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