Chasing Life Is How We Miss It - Lama Dawa's Commentary

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"The more we try to grasp at life, the more we miss it." -Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, in Reflections on a Mountain Lake

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
This is a quote that is relevant to the Four Noble Truths, because as she says, the more we try to grasp at life, the more we miss it. This is alluding to the cause of suffering, which is craving or grasping and as Tenzin Palmo is pointing out here that the very act of trying to get something implies that we are not content and present where we are, and even in the act of trying to get something, we actually miss it. We miss the bigger point, we miss the reality and the totality of the situation. So, this is a very nice quote to contemplate. The more we try to grasp at life, the more we miss it. The more we miss the very thing we are trying to reach, which actually is not usually the thing we think we want. We want happiness. By the very act of grasping, we are missing the happiness that we want, which really can only come from true contentment.

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