Things happen that we do not want. The things that we want do not happen.
Life is unsatisfactory. All of us seek peace and harmony, because this is what we lack in our lives. Even if we 
are free from unhappiness at this moment, we can remember a time when we were miserable, we can foresee a time when unhappiness recurs.
Our personal dis-satisfactions are not limited to ourselves. As we go about our day we unknowingly share our suffering with others with irritability, manipulation, restlessness, a discontented attitude. Because the atmosphere around each unhappy person is vaguely unsettling to everyone who enters it, anyone adjacent begins to feel agitated and unhappy too. In this way, individual tensions combine to create the variety of tensions spreading through our North American society.
Ignorance, or more simply, to ignore reality- or what is real- is a powerful root of dissatisfaction. If I am unhappy in my relationship I need to acknowledge it as truth to fix things.
Through meditation we find the truth. We learn to approach the truth in a workable manner, a bit at a time, working slowly but steadily to make our lives better. When our lives are better, everyone else feels better too.
Suffering is common to everyone, it makes no distinctions. Therefore the remedy for suffering must be equally available to everyone. You are not too busy, lack the time or inclination to help yourself. You are not the unique person whom meditation will not work for.
Don’t be discouraged by presuming that your busy life means you can’t meditate.
Don’t think that you need to attend a retreat or monastery to begin to relieve your suffering.
A nun or a monk who forsakes home and worldly responsibilities in order to follow a path has the opportunity to work more intensively, to assimilate the teachings more deeply, and therefore to progress more quickly, but the practice of meditation is not reserved for zealots and hermits.
Certainly a period of time must be given to the task of learning how to practice; but after these first steps, one can be able to apply the teachings of meditation to daily life.
If meditation is truly a way to relieve suffering, then as we progress in the practice we should become more happy in our daily lives, more harmonious, more at peace with ourselves.
Simultaneously, our relations with others should become more peaceful and harmonious. Instead of adding to the tensions of society, we should be able to make a positive contribution that will increase the happiness and welfare of all. To follow the path we must live the life of truth and purity.
Through these pages I hope to share my experience , strength , and hope as we progress away from suffering and toward enlightenment.
Peace and abundance to all. Rob
Spiritkeep Positive Yoga 