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Life Is Difficult

Life Is Difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Most people do not fully see this truth that life is difficult.

Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction

that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

What make life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration of grief, sadness, loneliness, guilt, regret, anger, fear, anxiety, anguish, despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challenge and encourage the human capacity to solve problems, just as in school we deliberately set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn. As

Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

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艰难的生活

生活是艰辛的生活是艰辛的，这是一个伟大的真理，最伟大的真理之一。这是一个伟大的真理是因为一旦我们认识到了这个真理我们就超越了它。一旦我们真正地明白生命的艰辛——一旦我们真正地理解并接受它那么生命就不再艰辛。

因为一旦它被接受了,这个事实便不再重要了大多数人并没能让你充分地认识到生活的艰辛。

对于他们的问题的严重性,他们的重担,和他们的困难,他们或多或少都有不停地，喧闹地，或是不易察觉地抱怨,好像生活通常很容易,好像生命就应该很容易似的。他们或大声地或不明显地，说出他们的感觉，即他们的困难表现出一种本不该有的独特的折磨,而且也不知什么原因,这些困难总是找上他们，或是他们的其他家人,他们的部落,他们的阶层，他们的国家，或是他们的种族，而不是其他人。因为我已经做了我分内的事情所以我理解这种抱怨。

生活就是要面对一系列的问题。我们是想要抱怨它们还是解决这些问题?我们是否想要教会我们的子女们如何解决问题呢?

自制力是我们需要解决这些问题的基本工具。没有自制力，我们就什么问题也处理不了。只有有些自制力了，我们才能解决某些问题。如果具备完全的自制力了，那我们就能处理好所有的问题。

让生活变得艰难的是面对困难和解决问题的痛苦过程。根据问题的不同的性质，它们唤起我们的悲痛，伤心，孤独，内疚,悔恨,愤怒，恐惧，焦虑,苦恼，或是绝望等挫败感。这些不舒服的感觉，通常是非常的不自在，通常是和身体.上的病痛一样痛苦,有时候甚至比得上最严重的身体病痛。事实上，这是因为这些事情或是冲突让我们产生了痛苦,所以我们称之为问题。生活总是艰辛的，因为它给我们带来了无尽的问题，生活不仅有快乐，也充满痛苦。

然而,正是在遇到问题并解决问题的过程中,生活才具有意义。这些问题是区分成功和失败的领先阶段。

这些问题激发我们的勇气和智慧;事实上,它们创造了我们的勇气和智慧。就是因为有了这些问题，我们才能得到思想上和精神.上的成长。当我们渴望鼓励人文精神的发展时,我们挑战并鼓励人类解决问题的能力,就像我们在学校刻意给孩子们出题让他们来解决一样。正是通过历经面对问题和解决问题的痛苦，我们才能从中得到收获。正如本杰明富兰克林所说:“那些让你很受伤的东西可以教会你很多。”正是这个原因，智者学会不再害怕,事实上，他们反而正视问题并且乐于接受问题带来的痛苦。