Sad, Worthless, Hopeless?

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I never finished college after going for 7 years. All that can be changed quite easily.

Statistic studies and polls for example can never be taken seriously because it is very rare that the results you read were the product of the questions the researchers asked with the exact meaning they tell you they were asked about. Will continue to pray for you both in the coming weeks.

7 Short Messages to Read When You're Feeling Hopeless

The world is pretty much a mess right now, it seems. A lot of people have been feeling hopeless and depressed, including some close to me. So I want to share a few ideas on how to cope when things go wrong, based on some of my own recent experiences. These are Things seem so solid when we are unhappy, but the truth is they are not. Through practice in identifying with a pure and peaceful mind, it has gotten to the point where I can still feel the bliss of the even under the thick cloak of the dark clouds. So if I can do it, you can too. This was what my close friend told me after a calamity I had some years ago, and it sustained me then and sustains me now. Tomorrow will take care of itself. We live life from dream to dream As I explain a lot in these articles ondue to our permanent grasping we spread our present mood over the past, missing what we think we had, and over the future, dreading a cold and depressing future. When we are feeling blessed again, or just back in a reasonably okay mood, we appreciate past lessons and welcome the opportunities of the future. The immediate past can feel like a beautiful dream, and just one of many now passed. The dream-like future can feel ripe with the potential for lasting bliss, freedom, and the ability to help others. In other words, I only have to make the effort to change the present moment. The rest takes care of itself. Let me take that away for you One way I like to transform the present moment is to acknowledge my current feeling of sadness rather than push it away, and use it to empathize with and absorb the similar sadness of so many other living beings, thus releasing them from it. This practice of makes my suffering feel meaningful, rather than like useless pain. Taking pacifies my mind with compassion and motivates me, lifting me out of discouragement. And the deeper the sadness, the more effective this practice is in some ways. So we need not fear our sadness. For example, if we are having difficulty in preventing attachment towards a particular object or person, we should think how there are countless beings afflicted by attachment which is often much stronger than our own, and out of compassion decide to take all their attachment upon ourself. We imagine that we draw all their attachment towards us in the form of black smoke. As it enters us, it completely destroys our own attachment, and then we meditate on emptiness for a while. We can use the same technique to overcome hatred and ignorance. In this way, we use our delusions to cultivate pure minds, rather as a farmer uses manure to grow crops. I remember discussing this meditation with another friend,last year — he told me it has been his go-to for overcoming delusions for many years. Spiritual friends can be so useful. Part 2 is nowincluding practical stuff on prayer, blessings, and how to view ourselves completely differently. Meantime, have you dealt successfully with any calamities lately. Are you finding ways to avoid falling into despair over the current world situation. Author: Luna Kadampa Based on 37 years' experience, I write about applying meditation and modern Buddhism to our everyday lives, and vice versa. I try to make it accessible to everyone who wants more inner peace and profound tools to help our world, not just Buddhists. Do make comments any time and I'll write you back. Slightly off tangent, but I wondered if you might give some guidance on your blog as to how to rely on our Dharma Protector. There was a recent fb comment regarding this practice and it has got me thinking about how to deepen and better understand what it means to rely on Dorje Shugden. Some interesting comments were made, which I can relate to and maybe others too. Intellectually, I understand that this when you re feeling hopeless not the function of a Dharma Protector, but nevertheless, this holding backness is holding me back… if that makes sense. Thank you Luna, your clear and simple words make dharma even more accessible in daily life. My teacher told us to fall in love with emptiness several years ago and it became my most cherished object in life. Recently, he told me to start loving the self that I normally see. I was able to do that authentically for the very first time and it felt like a thousand empowerments. I was able to welcome it wholeheartedly knowing it when you re feeling hopeless what it is, there was no fear, no judgement, no blaming, it was just simple and easy and I was able to see first-hand how samsara can be destroyed with ease, comfort and joy. Of course, it came back soon after and I caved in again into believing and cherishing it. Now, I just need to train in it more and train in mindfulness but it felt as if I have witnessed its end. My next step is to welcome this self as Heruka with this self as an interesting character from the charnel ground but in reality just bliss and emptiness. It was particularly the teaching you referenced about seeing those moments as passing clouds that initially helped relieve the cycle. Other teachings reached me on deeper levels, significantly reducing the power of the habitual thoughts, clearing room for cherishing others and joy. But every now and again a treacherous mind rears its head. When you re feeling hopeless seems familiar and there is a temptation to follow it, but the passing cloud analogy is brought to mind as soon as I recognize it, protecting me from the cycle. I am not suggesting that this is the only way to work with depression. Folks living with this will need to find a path and perhaps even medical treatment that works for them. Keep persisting, Dharma Teachers, Dharma Protectors, for you hold the Victory Banner. Maybe not profound but it has changed my world. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. We won't share your address with anyone. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

God did remain faithful to me even when I refused to give Him the time of day. Why would I choose to feel like this? Are you making the right daily choices? I have spinal degeneration with stenosis. Taken aback, I insisted that I really would. It won't be easy, but it makes a world of difference, and just imagine what could happen. All she could see were endless days of grief and poverty stretched before her like a Montana highway. Our minds have some vivid imaginations and does a great job of creating wacky scenarios.