Many people try to "escape" suffering through drugs, alcohol or other addictions. However, there is a better way. Think to whatever happens to you as events in a dream and to Amida Buddha and His Name as the only reality. Then change the focus from those dreamlike experiences to the true and real.
Do
not empower your feelings and various thoughts that appear in your mind, do not
bother about them, do not pay attention to them, but change the focus to Amida
and the saying of His Name (Nembutsu).
Your
experiences, feelings, wandering thoughts and obsessions will naturally
dissolve into the space of your mind if you do not focus on them. It is in
their nature to appear and disappear like mist or clouds in the sky, however we
prolong them indefinitely because of our clinging and identifying with them.
Please
do not run from a dreamlike experience (your suffering and obsessions) to
another dreamlike experience (drugs, alcohol, etc). If you do that you will
only multiply your suffering.
Better
recognize the difference between real and unreal, then chose the real. Change
the focus on Amida and His Name.
Namo
Amida Bu
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