Life is bitter sweet

This morning my secretary came in and I asked her to make two packet of " Hor Yan Hor " with two salted plum and she asked me " Boss, it will be very bitter " and I told her life is bitter and then she said " it should be bitter sweet" . Yes, she is right , life varies between bitter and sweet. It is never flat.

Just like alternating between happiness and sadness.  If there is happiness , then there is sweetness and this both sides of the coin.  If you flip the coin, it will land on the head or tail side and it cannot stand on its edge . Of course, we were taught of Buddha's middle path of neither happy or sad and if you can keep this thought , it will be marvellous.  That is why Buddha is a great teacher and he has achieved and realized it. How many of us can do it ? If they can, they will also become wiser and a great teacher.  I believe many people could have done it and have enjoy life to the fullest.

Is life to be this perfect way or bitter sweet ? It is a choice.  there is chinese saying " if you can  tolerate the bitter of the bitterest, you will be a leader among man " .  I believe this wisdom is to advise people to live through difficulties and suffering and in the end, they learn to be wiser and a better man.

To live a flat life or a bitter sweet life have its own merits and a personal choice of everyone. We want a happier life more than sadness but unfortunately, the more happy we are, we have to also to encounter a huge degree of bitterness . It is a corresponding  oppersite and unless , your mind is train to control your emotions asnd the downside of life.

Namaste.