When we first start to wake up and get on the Spiritual Path, we often feel frustrated that things don’t work as easily as we want. Many things from our past continue to bother us and we wonder how long will it take before my life becomes better. When we first wake up and turn on the light, we don’t see a beautiful room. We see the mess we made in the dark!
Our life does not suddenly change just because we start meditation. It takes time to find our way and clear the obstacles that block us from getting what we want. We feel frustrated that our meditation is restless and not satisfying and our life continues to have the same problems that we had before. The more we want to get our Enlightenment quickly, the more frustration we feel that we are not moving fast enough. In fact, we often feel like there is more karma coming to us than before we started to meditate. What is happening? In order to understand this we have to understand what was happening before we started to meditate.
