12/15/2025
We often divide life into neat categories:
This is bad.
This is good.
But reality is never that simple.
What we call “bad” is rarely pure darkness. Even in pain, loss, or failure, there is awareness being formed, strength being shaped, wisdom quietly growing. The bad teaches us what comfort never can.
What we call “good” is rarely perfect light. Inside success, pleasure, and comfort, there can be attachment, ego, fear of loss, and suffering waiting to arise. The good can blind us if we cling to it.
Life is not a straight line between right and wrong, joy and sorrow. It is a constant blending of both. Every moment carries its opposite within it. The seed of suffering exists in happiness, and the seed of growth exists in suffering.
This is not confusion.
This is balance.
This is life.
From a Buddhist perspective, this understanding reflects the truth of impermanence (Anicca). Nothing is fixed. No experience stays purely good or purely bad. When we cling to pleasure, we suffer when it changes. When we resist pain, we suffer twice. Wisdom comes from seeing clearly, without attachment or aversion.
The Buddha did not teach us to chase happiness or fight suffering. He taught us to observe, to understand, and to let go. When we stop labeling life and start witnessing it, we move closer to peace.
Not because life becomes perfect,
but because we finally see it as it is.
