There’s a certain opportunity in adversity.

I am not saying it as a consolation, though.

There is always an opportunity for self-inquiry, in every stage of our life, and there’s a certain opportunity in adversity – it’s the opportunity of GRASPING FREEDOM.

Our lives go in certain patterns and there are some turns and there are some misfortunes and some are physically real, and some are theoretical, i.e. are negative in the context of our certain narrative.

Pain can be real, there’s the physical pain and emotional pain, but then, there’s also psychological pain, which is not exactly real, in that sense that it is the result of our own mental processes, which we can actually acquire control over.

I dare to say that most of pain in our lives is psychological – the pain of not succeeding, the pain of not achieving, the pain of losing, the pain of loneliness, the pain of lacking.

I assert that this kind of pain is a result of our conditioned minds, it’s a result of the greed, ambition and sense of lacking, which has been installed in our minds.

Adversity, whether more real or less real, is then a wonderful opportunity for self inquiry. It is an invitation for the study of the workings of our mind.

It is in the watchful observation of it’s many processes, that understanding comes, and with this understanding – there is freedom.

In this very understanding, without condemning and judging, in this very understanding there is acceptance – and this acceptance is the door to freedom.

Realization of this freedom is most profound one, and most JOYFUL. You are not your problems. You are not your misfortune. Your misfortune is quite not real. There is great sense of joy, great sense of energy in breaking free from the tyranny of fate.