Richard:
Suffering has become an essential part of common sense. But it isn’t given.
Suffering derives from dualism …. which isn’t given, too.
Me:
For sure, suffering IS what the human condition is about – generally speaking.
But while someone is in pain, you can hardly say this to this person: your suffering derives from dualism…
It won´t be heard. Besides, it will be interpreted like an awful cynicism.
I guess if we want to help someone else, we have to have learned ourselves what
non-duality is about.
Richard:
Very well said. I’ve often been thinking what the essential difference is between suffering and pain. It seems there’s no significant border between these two expressions. Maybe real pain is like the physical answer for any violence on your body. And suffering are the thoughts about pain.
What do you think?
Me:
We can easily get lost in different notions, can´t we?…
You see, we have been so socialized by the culture to be “down”, to worry, to ascribe suffering and pain a far too large a significance. No matter if the pain is the outcome of thought or something else, it is there as a constant reminder. We have to learn to observe this process dispassionately.
WHY IS IT CONSTANTLY THERE…?
Everybody suffers, it is human…everybody takes that as a given truth.
But is it ok to be in pain? Why do we take pain and suffering as “the real thing”?
Why have we built up our personality on this delusion of hardship, pain, resistance…?
Why can´t we live in Joy instead…?
This is not a rhetorical question, but something to be “seriously” considered.
Why don´t we usually feel Joy and Ease Now…? Why…?
Is it because I don´t allow myself?
Is it civilized to choose pain and conflict before joy and peace…?
Is it civilized to have a life full of suffering?
These questions are to be observed as they arise in the moment.
Cause only in the moment the switch from Suffering and Pain to Joy and Equanimity
can be made…
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