| What does meditation have to do with hamster | | | | make the world a better place until after we do |
| wheels? | | | | something else to make money. |
| Quite a bit. | | | | "You load sixteen tons. What do you get? |
| Have you ever noticed that you keep solving | | | | Another day older and deeper in debt." |
| problems? And you keep winding up with new | | | | "Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. |
| ones? | | | | I owe my soul to the company store." |
| Somehow you don't quite get what you | | | | -- Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| expected. You study for years to get a new | | | | This hamster wheel really begins in our own |
| career. Then that new career doesn't turn out as | | | | minds. We have some problem. We try to figure |
| you had expected. | | | | it out. We try to know how to handle the |
| Welcome to the hamster wheel of Life. This is | | | | problem. |
| the endless struggle that is part of the duality in | | | | When we don't solve the problem, we beat |
| which we live. (I'm right, they're wrong. I'm good, | | | | ourselves up for not solving the problem. |
| they're bad.) | | | | Things get worse. We keep spinning. |
| We seem to spend our lives in endless struggles | | | | This is the mental version of the hamster wheel |
| doing things we don't like doing. Supposedly, once | | | | of life. |
| we accomplish some project, we'll finally really get | | | | The result of all this is endless churning. We get |
| to do what we like. Or we'll finally have enough | | | | more and more into our heads. |
| money to do something worthwhile. | | | | How do you find peace? |
| Perhaps we feel that we won't have time to | | | | You could meditate every day. |