weather and the 4 noble truths

There are four noble truths according to the buddahs first teaching:
1.  It's part of being human to feel discomfort.  All around is the changing weather and we fail to see that we are like the weather, that we ebb and flow like tides and wax and wane like the moon, therefore we are fluid, not solid and so we suffer. 
2.  Resistance is the fundatmental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.  The cause of suffering is clinging to our narrow view, ME.  We resist change and flow like the weather, we have the same energy as all living things.  When we resist we make ourselves solid, resisting is whats called ego.
3.  Suffering ceases when we let go of trying to maintain the huge ME at any cost.  When we let go of the thinking in meditation and the story line, we're left just sitting with the quality and the energy of whatever particular "weather" we've been trying to resist.
4.  We can use everything we do to help us realize that we're part of the energy that creates everything.  If we learn to sit still like a mountain in a hurricane, unprotected from the truth and vividness and immediacy of simply being part of life, then we are not this separate being who has to have things turn out our way.  When we stop resisting and let the weather simply flow through us, we can live our lives completely.  It's up to us. 

I liked this chapter because it shows that only we can stop our suffering and it's all in how we view things and how we let it shape us.  We suffer when we focus on ourselves and if we can let go and stop resisting change we can live our lives.  This chapter kind of explains what meditation is and how it can help when you're suffering, it can be so empowering to be able to do this, I wish I were better at it!