Do This One Thing to Survive Life’s Great Tests

Movement of Thought is Just as Important Action

I have survived two of Life’s Great Tests in my life. I won’t go into detail about them because it doesn’t really matter what they are because no matter who you are, where you live, or what your beliefs, if any at all, you will likely encounter periods of prolonged upheaval and even sometimes physical and/or emotional pain or suffering in your life. Sometimes these Tests will come at once in the form of all three.

There are of course the usual small inconveniences and short spurts of disruption that frustrate and deter us usually temporarily from our chosen paths and are the marks of a fairly normal life. What I’m talking about here are the more significant and emotionally taxing detours that I refer to as The Great Test or Tests as the case may be.

It is, according to the Buddha, a universal truth that suffering is inevitable. In the bible the christian God allows Job to endure immeasurable suffering seemingly for sport in order to win a wager with satan. A Great Test is such a period of prolonged suffering that may entice you to question, “why me?”

Struggling or struggled through a messy divorce? Coping with caring for a sick child? Fighting cancer? Recovering from substance dependency? Adjusting to the loss of a parent or other first degree loved one? You are enduring, or, if you are already on the other side of it, have endured A Great Test.