Teaching #12: It's not easy to feel Suffering
When something difficult arises, the mind often wants to jump in to comment on it, or try to fix it, or move away from it – anything but stay with it. This may seem like healthy, self-protective behavior, but the truth is that if you can’t be fully present with the difficult moments, chances are you won’t be present with the best moments of your life either. In other words, when you work directly with your capacity for being with pain, you are also working directly with your capacity for being with joy.
Chapter 5, Pg. 41
For your reflection: Watch your mind when something good is happening to you, what does it do? Is it able to stay fully present and really receive the joy of it? Or does it jump to thinking about the past or the future, or make judgments on what you’re experiencing?