God tells us when we attain the pure mind, only joy will come from our hearts. But God tells us the path to the Original mind is difficult, but it is marvelous when it is attained.

What is the path to the Original mind? When suffering, or obstacles appears in one’s life, not to blame others or God. One must ponder one’s own mind of evil thoughts or dusts instead. One must not act upon the evil thoughts when obstacles appear. God tells us that we can gradually purify our minds when we do this. But in reality how difficult is this to do? It is because we have these evil thoughts in our mind, that makes it difficult to change our behavior.

For example, how many times have you been irritated by waiters or waitresses at restaurants, or by your co-workers? Even another good example would be your spouse? Does your spouse do things that annoy you? God tells us that when people place obstacles in front of you, not to be angered; but one should ponder one’s own minds to see why one is angry. Ponder the dusts or evil thoughts in your mind. These thoughts are regret, covetousness, self-love, greed, and arrogance.  From my personal experience this is difficult to do. Instead I am often regretting my actions or words that I know goes against God’s teachings. I need to remind myself to ponder my own mind when obstacles occur.

It is because we have dusts in our minds that suffering or obstacles will continue to appear in our lives. We often try to change the behavior and thinking of others when obstacles appear; but we need to first change our way of thinking.  More specifically, we need to purify our own mind before we can help others.  This is the same with our prayer, the Joyous Service. Our minds must be pure, before God accepts our prayer to save others. The horse (pure mind) goes before the cart (prayer).