Introduction
I learnt something very interesting the other day while
listening to an audio book in the car. It is a book written by David Richo, who
is a Buddhist psychotherapist. He says that through all his years of practice there
seem to be five things that are a given in the lives of all people. He says
that these five things are things that happen in life and can’t be avoided in
anyone’s life.
The Five Things
One
Everything has a beginning
and an end.
Two
Plans change.
Three
People are not always
loving and kind.
Four
Life is not always
fair.
Five
Life contains pain.
Interesting
What do you reckon. I find it quite interesting and much of
our psychological work centres around the problems that our own egos have when
these five things happen to us.
Conclusion
This could be a point of work for us to one day. To actually
focus on these five things and see how we with the various egos that we have
difficulty in accepting and living with these five things that happen.
Really, these five things don’t hurt, what hurts is us not
being able to accept or cope with them.
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