Simplicity for life

Honor to the Lord Arahat, perfectly and completely enlightened One!

When we live in developed countries, though you agree or not we are complete with all the necessary components of our basic life. Most of us have jobs that give us an income to live and we have a good education so that we can stand in the society as independent individuals. But are we really happy of what we have in our life. Most of the people are not sure about their religion or what they really want to achieve in their life. All in all what we really do not need is suffering in our daily life. What we don’t like at work is stress, and what we don’t want from a family is sadness and frustration. So how do we overcome this problem. Whether you believe this or not this is the basics of all economies. How to get rid of suffering.

Buddhism is probably the only religion or teaching that introduces a clear answer for this question. A stress life will not get what you want from that life. Simplicity is a basic component in Buddhism. Having a simple lifestyle is a key to eradicate suffering. What is this simple life?

Simple life is having very minimum things to your life. If you only have what you really want in your life for usage, your life will be very peaceful. For an example what is the need for a mobile phone? Is that for watching TV? No. The need for a mobile phone is to talk and text. Well someone might use it for email and may be to go on facebook. Technology has become a easy access thing in modern day but have you realized that it has taken all your free time. If you only used to check your Email when you are at work or at a dedicative time at home after dinner, now you can check it every second. Isn’t this bit annoying? Imaging responding to facebook comments in the middle of the night. You might probably say that it is interesting. It is because that you do not understand the value of freedom.

How many of us keep quiet or appreciate silence in our daily life. Simplicity is something like that. When you go to adopt a busy lifestyle, you will lose yourself. You are just running behind something that you even do not know. If you only have what you really want in your life you will not be frustrated.

Meditation is a key function in Buddhism. But you cannot achieve goals in meditation without having your preliminaries sorted. Meditation is the only answer for suffering in life. My next article will introduced into meditation for lay practitioners. But in order to turn yourself to meditation you must practice simplicity in your life.

Be well!