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  Haydn : lady liberty

Awakened Suffering

Haydn said Sep 19, 2007, 1:28 AM:
 

There seems to be questions and beliefs about suffering after one shifts to a transcendental orientation. It appears that some people think all suffering and unhappiness stops after such a transformation.  The opposite is true.  One has become everything and everyone and is  therefor not cut off from anything. The only difference is that these experiences are underscored with a larger and more complete knowing and being. ( a cosmic consciousness).  Things take on the appearance of individual situations being played as cosmic movements,  Cosmic movements include everything…suffering and all. To add to the situation, there is even a greater urge to help all the suffering just as one would bandage ones own arm if it were bleeding.  So escaping pain and sorrow doesn't exist. unless it is within some pathological state.. In the beginning it is about our personal selves;  then it is about everyone else.
 

Re: Awakened Suffering

Don [no longer around] said Jan 8, 2008, 11:51 AM:
 

I'm going to say that my Awakening was that I could see that it is all a dream. Everyone has thier own dream but for one to be awaken, one has to see that everyone has thier own dream but they have not been in thier own dream but in everybody elses. Now that I have been awaken, I find the only suffering that I experience is when I get back into somebody else's dream. Am I making myself clear.

Your friend,Don
  Eric Putkonen :  

Re: Awakened Suffering

Eric Putkonen said Jan 24, 2008, 5:20 PM:
 

Perhaps it just comes down to defining terms, but I define suffering as imaginery pain.  Like when you are getting shot or stitches and you are told, “don't look at it, it will only hurt more.”

That hurting more is suffering…a mental fiction.  Pain still exists, but not suffering.

Namaste,

~ Eric Putkonen
http://www.awaken2life.org
  Clare : Anam Cara

Re: Awakened Suffering

Clare said Jan 24, 2008, 5:43 PM:
 
Hi Haydn and Erik, and nice to see you again Don.

My suffering was for years and years, the avoidance of my pain, and it wasnt until I woke up that I realised this.

Since that fateful day, I have, many times, felt the pain which i had repressed all my life, and  in so doing,  discovered that all the avoidance of  feeling this pain is what fuelled my suffering.

Now I simply live life, and when I feel pain, I feel pain, and when I feel joy I feel joy.  

No more suffering.

Beannacht

Clare
 

Re: Awakened Suffering

Don [no longer around] said Feb 1, 2008, 7:18 AM:
 

Clare, it's nice to see you again.

What a wonderful post !!

I think what made it so wonderful was how many times you use the word  ” I ”

I find the more I talk about I

The more I learn about I and I like that.

Your friend,Don