Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Interpretation
Life's difficulties are universal and inescapable, and we should not allow them to disrupt our peace.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of challenges in life, suggesting that both ordinary people and enlightened beings, such as saints or sages, face difficulties. It encourages a resilient mindset, advocating for maintaining one's peace and focus in the face of adversity, rather than being overwhelmed by the hardships that arise.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way
Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
By moderation one can be generous.
'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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