First of all, I am trying to speak American!
Secondly, I was doing a Zen meditation and asked if it was possible to find a common denominator, so that everyone could find common ground and identify and the word I got was "Wishful thinking!"
Our mind is the wish-fulfilling tree-whatsoever you think, sooner or later it is fulfilled.
This was followed by the word "Challenge."
Misery only means that things are not fitting with your desires-and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.
My sponsor told me to look at "problems" as challenges. Something to be overcome and to work on. And the "Piece de la resistance" was the word "Accident."
It is not a certain sequence of causes that brings enlightenment. Your search, your intense longing, your readiness to do anything-altogehter perhaps they create a certain aroma around you in which that great accident becomes possible. - Osho
Looks like I may have to 'stink' up the place a little to get everyone's attention.
Hey people, we are family. We have travelled different road to get here. It is my understanding that we have one goal, one destination and that is recovery. It doesn't matter the substance, it doesn't matter the trauma and difficulties you overcame to get here, it doesn't matter what stood in your way of getting here sooner, the important thing is - you are here!
We can do what I can't. God Bless.
