Contemporary:
Being clear about words,
fun-da-mental and rewarding:
Pleasure and pain are circumstantial (not in our control).
Suffering is attitudinal.
Suffering is a story we add to experience.
The central figure of the story, the sufferer, is ‘me’, a quasi entity, a mental construct (10% faulty thinking + 90% muscle-memory).
Who is suffering?
The common-sense answer is to tell a story in time and space:
I am this body-mind named Holger,
I was born and will die.
I am a man, half of 116,
located on planet earth,
with a socio-economic status of ABC123.
This is a legitimate mental answer/identity.
It comes bundled with endless ideas of should, would and could (suffering).
What am I?
Am I an object in time and space?
I am the one aware of body-mind-world.
“I cannot be what I am aware of.”
Ya but!
Thinking is a tool, it is not a place to live in.
Understanding and relaxing the me-feeling and me-belief is so crucial, important and nurturing 🥰.
Alone I couldn’t see the cosmic joke!
Kudos to Magdi and the garden of friends.
Mind, your own business
Identified as ‘me’ I only knew contrast (pleasure-pain, good-bad).
I wasn’t aware of/as Presence/Being/Peace.
‘Me’ was a sense of lack – normal –, always busy being busy, trying to get somewhere, to be someone.
“Truth is simple, the seeker is complex.”
There is a subtle/huge difference between conceptualizing (me) and direct experience (I am); awareness is always whole and complete.
Happiness is yOur true nature, but we might overlook it for decades. We are so habituated to identify as the ‘me’ we think/feel/believe I am.
When is enough enough?
StreamOfLove.com
CollectiveSickness.com
TransmissionOfIgnorance.com
“Let the weed and the wheat grow together…”
Matthew 13:30
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