End of suffering is so simple
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I want to scream it so loud that everybody will hear it but people are not listening:
The way to happiness is so simple -
So damn simple! Took me years of big complicated spiritual theories and practices while overlooking this tiny precious diamond that was there everywhere all along. It was too simple...
For cry out loud, you don't need to waste time reading endless books, formulating complicated spiritual theories, it's here and so simple. Give it a try, what can you lose?
This is the practical way to separate the sufferer from the pain - instead of resisting the pain in order to make pain disappear, accept the pain and the suffer will disappear.
Read it again, all the essence lies in the previous sentence. Notice the difference between pain and suffer.
This is the practical way to stop the mind's prime erroneous strategy of resisting pain assuming that thus pain will vanish.
This is the practical way to break your identification with the false.
Intellectually, you know this very well. I knew it very well. We read it in every second transcript of satsangs, Eckhart Tolle emphesizes it, Osho emphesizes it, Krishnamurti emphasizes it. Intellectually you know it very well but have you seriously adopted it into practice?
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PLEASURE AND PAIN BOTH ARE ILLUSORY
Santthosh
HI DORA,
PAIN AND PLEASURE ARE CREATED OUT OF ONE SINGLE SUBSTANCE. DISCOVERING THAT SUBSTANCE AND REALIZING THE FACT THAT IT IS THE TRUE SELF WILL FREE ONE FROM THE ILLUSORY EXPERIENCE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN WHICH EVERYONE OF US EXPERIENCING AS REALITY.
WITH RESPECT AND REGARDS
SANTHOSH
so?
How do you "discover" and how do you "realize"?
This is exactly the problem the blogger is shouting about
People, you have this simple and powerful tool: accept+observe. It works! Its power is in its simplicity. Anyone who tried zillion methods and techniques and then got to accept+observe wants to start shouting like the lady who wrote the blog: the solution is damn simple.
And she is shouting and then people, exactly as she predicted, do not listen, they add concepts, they add theories. Illusion, reality, discovery, put these aside for a moment and just accept and observe.
When you add anything to acceptance, it is not acceptance anymore, it somehow always introduces a sophisticated hidden resistance. Acceptance does not need additions.
Just try it: leave aside your theories for a while, take something that bothers you and just observe it and accept it as it is. Acceptance means that you are willing to adopt the possibility, just a possibility, that this bothering something is going to stay with you forever (otherwise it is not really acceptance but a clever way to indirectly resist, you are still trying to eradicate it). Just try it and see the results without expecting anything (Expectation also introduces resistance through the back door).
Simple is not easy
Yes, acceptance, nonresistance, surrender, is the way. The rest of the spiritual process is the usually slow realization of the futility of doing any of that, which finally results in it happening in your effortlessness. It IS effortlessness we are talking about, yes? And so it is not something that can be brought about by effort or any kind of practice. It comes about to a great degree through mental clarity; through the realization of futility, and ultimately it is 'accomplished' only through Truth Realization; the disidentification with the mind/body which suffers.
Recognizing that inviting pain is an effective means of lessening it is wonderful, but of course we don't have to imagine very long to come up with physical trauma and emotional pain scenarios that far exceed the person's ability to embrace, and so it is not the answer to suffering. The answer hasn't changed since Buddha's light bulb moment.
Phil
not inviting pain nor resisting pain
not inviting pain nor resisting pain...
Just accepting and observing whatever pain there is right now...
Accept and observe look at first like names of actions that we do but actually this is because of the deceiving aspect of language. Acceptance is the non-doing of resisting (a natural reflex of the mind) and observing is the non-doing of suppressing (another reflex of the mind) therefore accepting and observing are not something that we do, they just happen when we stop the doing of the mind's reflexes of resisting and suppressing.
And they are not two different things, Acceptance and observation are two qualities of the same state, let's call it awareness.
Pain and Suffering
Very interesting, now you have found that there is a reason for the pain? Pain in a language of black atoms, sick atoms. We are made of atoms. The material, spiritual and soul atoms. We have pain which is the language of the atoms telling us we have to do something to find the cause, the sin if you will, then when you clean it out and all the underlying motives and repent with all your heart, the pain will cease. If you know that pain and suffering goes together,yes you need to accept it, but lets go a step further and find the cause clean the aura and then the true healing of soul begins.
Why add anything to accept & observe
Why complicate the process when you have accept & observe working so magnificently and thoroughly?
Morality, trying to repent, sinning cause the acceptance not to be a real one. They may cause inner conflict and the opposite of acceptance - a hidden resistance to what I feel or did.