This little software issue is taxing the best brains in our partner company, it looks like a really simple problem, but it’s more tenacious than a Jack Russell with a stick.
So another full on day in Newbury and determination is the key to solving it. I am driving up there again in the morning, determined and full of life-energy from all the on-road chanting I’m doing en-route.
It is a well known Buddhist saying that our problems are not the real problem, it is the way we perceive them that is the problem.
Don’t have problems, have a series of challenges. Challenges are just problems that we are confident that we can overcome. Our problems come and go, nothing lasts forever, so view them with an open mind, look on them as challenges and remember, you are turning poison into medicine.
Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated by a simple lit candle. Even a stone from the bottom of the deepest river can be used to produce fire.
Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not existed for billions of years, nor will they linger forever.
The sun will definitely rise, in fact its ascent has already begun. With determination, we can all overcome our problems, so look on them as challenges and enjoy the victory when it arrives.
The Search For Enlightenment 
May 17, 2012 @ 23:13:33
Thank you for this – just home from my Dharma Foundation class so this was a lovely positive thing to read!