“Expectation is the root of all heartache.” ~ William Shakespeare
I have illustrated how to remove pain that is caused by expectation. The following is an excerpt from the book “Wisdom on How to Live Life”.
Tom: Is there any other thing that can cause us pain?
Guru: Expectation.
Tom: What do you mean?
Guru: When we take up a body, life actually promises us nothing.
Tom: What do you mean?
Guru: As an example, when we took up a body, life never promised us how long it would last.
Tom: It didn’t?
Guru: So it may last for 25 years.
Tom: Then?
Guru: We may feel disappointed.
Tom: You mean we shouldn’t feel disappointed?
Guru: Life will last as long as it’ll last. So why should we feel disappointed?
Tom: So why do we feel disappointed?
Guru: Because we’ve been taught to expect life to last around 75 years and when it doesn’t, we feel disappointed.
Tom: Life is short.
Guru: But if we don’t have expectation, then there is no disappointment.
Tom: So disappointment is caused by expectation, and not by actual happening.
Guru: Right, disappointment comes when we compare a happening with some reference point.
Tom: Remove the reference point, then there is no disappointment.
Guru: Exactly, without expectation, we’ll just observe whatever happens is whatever happens.
~ Tommy Wong
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