Being dissatisfied is the cause for liberation!
This is the first noble truth: recognising suffering.
It’s possible that being ‘over-enthusiastic’ with positivity, which inflates itself and make everything sugary. We then come across a negative situations and find it difficult to handle. I meet many people like this. This type of positivity is fear-based, and a cover-up – but those people are at the stage they’re at, and one can’t criticise it: one can just accept it with compassion. We are all following our own path through our confusion, and at some time, we will arrive at our destination….sooner or later!
True positivity is clarity. With this clarity comes confidence. With confidence comes a sense of relief and joy (bliss even!). Once this has a firm foundation, there is no longer any conflict. Everything is seen as one taste, as there is just awareness of awareness. Whether the experience is rough or smooth – awareness is just aware. That is empty essence, and from this expression manifests as essence-love.
From a Buddhist perspective, there are two aspects to enlightenment: one is to recognise one’s true nature and attain stability in that, and the other is the exhaustion of all karma, whether good or bad (just to clarify: the exhaustion of good karma means that when pleasant things happen to us, we are in danger of complacency, this too has to be dissolved). But here we are talking about a very refined state of being, and not the normal, everyday human existence.
From this point of view, compassion is dynamic. In Buddhism, there are four enlightened activities: pacifying, magnetising, enriching and destroying – these are all deal with ego (just to clarify: ego is just our consciousness clinging to an idea. It doesn’t actually exist – our biggest problem is attachment).
Being in stillness does not require us to become vegetables. It’s OK to experience anger – it is aggression that is destructive. In Buddhist terms, anger is mirror-like wisdom …something is seen that is not correct – that is a pure reflection in the mirror-mind. However in ordinary life that quickly turns to arguing and anger (all the negative emotions have a wisdom aspect). As you can see, the emotions have a secret life.
Being dissatisfied is the cause for liberation!
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BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
I’m past the dissatisfied point of being, at this point in time I’m just plain pissed off about the blatant lack of morals,integrity, lack of accountability, just plain bullshit that the ruling elite are throwing at humanity that they look down upon as “less than deserving” these basic things needed for humanity to move forward positively .
What would you do about this situation ?–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-lFhAOjJp4
here’s the first vid that did not load correctly in that post : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-lFhAOjJp4
The more people are dissatisfied the more the world will change. The selfish corporations are leading us into an unnatural world devoid of empathy. What I find difficult to understand are the middlemen and workers, they must know what is going on, but turn a blind eye.
Be well Rob,
Tony