When You Hit a Wall
"When we encounter a wall, you should tell yourself, "Since there is a wall here, a wide, open expanse must lie on the other side." Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering the wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.
I love this Buddhist proverb or saying. I think it is telling of each of us that there is something to learn when we hit that wall. It is going to be on how you see the wall that is going to make the difference in our life, for the better. If you see that wall as just a wall and an object to stop you then you will hit the wall and fall over dead or some version of dead (like dead in spirit) or you could look at it differently. There is something big behind that wall. It is not the wall that is expansive bur rather what is behind it usually.
The other part of this thinking are the ones who think things like: "I will jump over that wall, I have done so before". We must be unafraid of that wall and able to see beyond it. That my friends is wisdom and that my loves is courage. When we run into a wall and we simply make an attempt at jumping over it or getting a ladder and jumping over it. Then there is the option to get a few friends to support you on their backs and they lift you over it to the other side where you open the latch or you just get to the other side and are able to tell them about it.
All of us are going to hit a wall at.sometime or another. None of us are absent of challenges in life. At times it seems like there is a wall there simply to challenge you and to see what you will do. I call it a test that I need to pass or that I can be determined to pass. There are walls in our life and the question is not whether we will get through it but rather how long it will take and what strategies we will utilize and it does not hurt to apply some courage, faith and love into it. That seems to help.
I have hit the wall of a health opportunity. I have hit the wall of shame over my behavior and anger. I have hit the wall of relationship and confusion. I have hit the wall many times and each time I think: "What am I suppose to do?" What the hell is expected is what I thought when on one Sunday I went to a Buddhist meeting to the wrong address on the wrong street. In fact the address I had inputted into my GPS was non-existent. So I went around in circles because Siri as we call her kept taking me around and around until she got tired and said: "Your address is on the right". The only issue was that it was not 1455 but 303 because on this street there was no such address. In fact this was the end of the street and it did not go any further. I was frustrated and when I saw some people going into a building I followed them. Turned out that was for some other destination and occasion. In the meantime I asked and was told that the address I was going to was on the other side of the building into another entrance. I sheepishly picked my bag up off the security belt and proceeded to the "other entrance". There I show a young man the address and he looked at my phone and said: "You want to go to Wabash street not Wacker". I was at least a couple of miles from where I was to go, but wait it gets better. When I left my car parked it did not want to lock with the keyless fob and I had already one issue which was that the key fob of my car was not locking it or starting it up. I flagged a cab and got to the meeting about 15 minutes late when normally I am fifteen minutes early but for some reason nothing bothered me. Even when the meeting was over and my friend asked me what I needed I said I could resolve it by getting a new battery at a Radio Shack. After consulting with a couple of women I was informed that most of these stores had closed and that there was not one nearby. Suddenly one jumped up and called a friend over who was a mechanic. His advise was to go to Walgreens and get the cylinder batter I needed for my key to work. He also suggested that I hold the key fob to the keyless ignition button so that maybe it would read it and start. I again jump into a cab who takes me to Walgreens and there I find the battery I needed. The cab driver took me back to the car and as the mechanic suggested I placed the key fob close to the ignition button and it started right away, even before I placed the battery inside of it. The cab driver stood there to make sure the car started and blessed me with his words.
Every wall I encountered I was able to get around it, through it or over it. Nothing seemed to bother me until that is I got home and pulled into my driveway. There in front of me was a swarm of thousands of mosquitos and the front door was latched from the inside. The only way to get in was through the attached garage door and the only way to that door was through the swarm of mosquitos and by opening the garage door. I could not help but to look up and say "really god, really?" I was exhausted.
Stay tuned...
I love this Buddhist proverb or saying. I think it is telling of each of us that there is something to learn when we hit that wall. It is going to be on how you see the wall that is going to make the difference in our life, for the better. If you see that wall as just a wall and an object to stop you then you will hit the wall and fall over dead or some version of dead (like dead in spirit) or you could look at it differently. There is something big behind that wall. It is not the wall that is expansive bur rather what is behind it usually.
The other part of this thinking are the ones who think things like: "I will jump over that wall, I have done so before". We must be unafraid of that wall and able to see beyond it. That my friends is wisdom and that my loves is courage. When we run into a wall and we simply make an attempt at jumping over it or getting a ladder and jumping over it. Then there is the option to get a few friends to support you on their backs and they lift you over it to the other side where you open the latch or you just get to the other side and are able to tell them about it.
All of us are going to hit a wall at.sometime or another. None of us are absent of challenges in life. At times it seems like there is a wall there simply to challenge you and to see what you will do. I call it a test that I need to pass or that I can be determined to pass. There are walls in our life and the question is not whether we will get through it but rather how long it will take and what strategies we will utilize and it does not hurt to apply some courage, faith and love into it. That seems to help.
I have hit the wall of a health opportunity. I have hit the wall of shame over my behavior and anger. I have hit the wall of relationship and confusion. I have hit the wall many times and each time I think: "What am I suppose to do?" What the hell is expected is what I thought when on one Sunday I went to a Buddhist meeting to the wrong address on the wrong street. In fact the address I had inputted into my GPS was non-existent. So I went around in circles because Siri as we call her kept taking me around and around until she got tired and said: "Your address is on the right". The only issue was that it was not 1455 but 303 because on this street there was no such address. In fact this was the end of the street and it did not go any further. I was frustrated and when I saw some people going into a building I followed them. Turned out that was for some other destination and occasion. In the meantime I asked and was told that the address I was going to was on the other side of the building into another entrance. I sheepishly picked my bag up off the security belt and proceeded to the "other entrance". There I show a young man the address and he looked at my phone and said: "You want to go to Wabash street not Wacker". I was at least a couple of miles from where I was to go, but wait it gets better. When I left my car parked it did not want to lock with the keyless fob and I had already one issue which was that the key fob of my car was not locking it or starting it up. I flagged a cab and got to the meeting about 15 minutes late when normally I am fifteen minutes early but for some reason nothing bothered me. Even when the meeting was over and my friend asked me what I needed I said I could resolve it by getting a new battery at a Radio Shack. After consulting with a couple of women I was informed that most of these stores had closed and that there was not one nearby. Suddenly one jumped up and called a friend over who was a mechanic. His advise was to go to Walgreens and get the cylinder batter I needed for my key to work. He also suggested that I hold the key fob to the keyless ignition button so that maybe it would read it and start. I again jump into a cab who takes me to Walgreens and there I find the battery I needed. The cab driver took me back to the car and as the mechanic suggested I placed the key fob close to the ignition button and it started right away, even before I placed the battery inside of it. The cab driver stood there to make sure the car started and blessed me with his words.
Every wall I encountered I was able to get around it, through it or over it. Nothing seemed to bother me until that is I got home and pulled into my driveway. There in front of me was a swarm of thousands of mosquitos and the front door was latched from the inside. The only way to get in was through the attached garage door and the only way to that door was through the swarm of mosquitos and by opening the garage door. I could not help but to look up and say "really god, really?" I was exhausted.
Stay tuned...
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