"Some [[zen]] [[Buddhists]] hold that **the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently** (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in grasping that there are certain truths about being a limited human from which you’ll never be liberated. **You don’t get to dictate the course of events. And the paradoxical reward for accepting reality’s constraints is that they no longer feel so constraining**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[control]], [[acceptance]], [[character]], [[self-control]], [[attention]], [[distraction]], [[procrastination]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]