The Four o me Truths
- Wonder
- Jun 25, 2023
- 5 min read
I am so intrigued by what people will think about this topic. I have been a practicing buddhist since 2018. I took refuge to become a Tibetan Buddhist during my last relapse on opiates. I have been struggling for a long time I did not know my purpose, I had no idea who I really was and quite frankly in my opinion I wasn’t really a very kind person, at all. I walked around in my own bubble day today at the time I had a great job as a account manager for a well-established liquor, distribution company in Kentucky.
I learned early on that. It takes a lot of discipline to work in the arena that may or could contribute to a relapse. At this point, I had been sober off of heroin for 14 years. I still had issues with my eating habits, and was convinced that they were OK as long as I wasn’t as bad as I was in high school. The career afforded mean many things., things I had not really been able to afford before, or even thought of having in my possession. It seems like everything was falling into place. Then, came the burn out.
Now, I’m one of those addicts that thrives on control before anything. I was consistently maintaining a job, for real it with my career, I thought. I thought I was going to do it for the rest of my life, until I wasn’t. I started to get lazy, I started to fall out of love with the newness, and became disgusted with a competitive nature of what a sales force is driven to be. I took a trip to Colorado in the West Coast for a couple weeks and by the time I got back everyone at my office knew I had 1 foot out the door.
My managers all tried to work with me. I blamed it on everything, but the fact that I was insecure, could not control my surroundings and wise, being crushed by my lack of motivation. Shortly after that, I picked up our jobs, I had spent some time after I got back from the West Coast getting my yoga teacher certification. I had started to study nutrition, and was convinced that I it would all work out.
Then, came to burn out, again.
This time it was only worse, I purely believe not having a driving force that I respected, held me back from believing in myself. I didn’t know what to do, and then, across the room in my apartment I saw the stack of books that I had to read to get my RYTC. One of them was called mindfulness Yoga: the awakened union of breath, body and mind. It is a book written by one of my teachers,
Whether you have never done a meditation or yoga in your like, or have been a serious AF practitioner for years, this book is for you my friends . This innovative text teachers a completely amazing form of yoga practice. "Mindfulness Yoga," basically mixes the dynamics of Buddha's teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness : contemplation of body,, contemplation of feeling, contemplation of mind and contemplation of Dhamma. These foundations simply state that as a practitioner of meditation and yoga, you should one, understand your body, and how your body feels in reality. Our bodies experience, so many different things on a regular basis, just being able to do a simple body scan and sit with the way your body feels opens up your mind. Two, contemplating your feeling. This basically means being aware of the existing tone of the experience that you are having. Three, contemplation of mind is the rationalization of your feelings in your body. And lastly, contemplation of Dhamma revolves around the fact that there are hindrances in our life that keep us unaware and unable to rationalize with our feelings in our body.
Mind blowing, right?
After I read that book again, I started to read more Buddhist books. Yoga is not just a Buddhist practice. It is practiced in many cultures with many spiritual backgrounds. I was obsessed with Buddhism and the practices. I read the book., the universe in a single Adam: the convergence of science and spirituality. In this book, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, uses great knowledge from Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr and Einstein. By means of an inspection of Darwinism and karma, quantum mechanics and amazing philosophical intuition into the nature of reality, neurobiology and the learning of what consciousness is, Hos Holiness sketches important similarities, like chalk on a chalkboard. All between contemplative and scientific examinations of reality.
When I came to realize that everything I had ever learned was being explained to me in a way I could understand my mind took flight. Fast forward about seven months of study and practice, and then I took refuge. As soon after learned much more about the noble truths, the eightfold path among many other Buddhist lists . Like I said, before I love when things are listed for me, so it seemedlike a really good fit.
It was.
One of the most important things that I’ve learned in my studies thus far is the contemplation of the four noble truths. I am listing them below, and will go further into them as I continue to write about how my faith drives me.
Dukkah: the truth of suffering, which says that ALL existence is distinguished by suffering, pain, and dissatisfaction.
Samudaya: the truth of the cause of suffering, which identifies craving and attachment to be the main causes of suffering.
Nirodha: the truth of the end of suffering, which teaches that it is feasible, to stop suffering by getting rid the causes of craving and attachment.
Magga: the truth of the path leading to the end of suffering, which silhouettes the Eightfold Path as the means to end suffering and achievePeace..
That’s enough information for now, when I apply these four principles to my life, almost every single time I can get out of my head into my body and become present. I sometimes have to delta breeze as well, however, I have now used this practice on a daily basis, to keep me in, check with all of my vices.
I hope that this intro to mindfulness through Buddhism Ken, open the door to acceptance for you my friends.
As always, I love you for reading
Be well
Wonder
Link to purchase Mindfulness Yoga
Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body, and Mind https://a.co/d/eFBZgGk
Link to purchase The Universe in a single The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality https://a.co/d/95KtCUu
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