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Recieved: 2001/01/27 14:19
Subject: Re: [K-list] Is it possible to end hurt ?
From: David Bozzi
On 2001/01/27 14:19, David Bozzi posted thus to the K-list:
J B wrote:
> Hi
> Feeling hurt,.. a reoccuring theme, almost daily.
Someone once said, 'Pain, it's the fabric of the world. But suffering is optional.'
> And so I wonder, why I've never looked into it deeply enough.
Pain becomes suffering when we don't look into it.
And watching pain while grounded in awareness
is not the same as dwelling in it for eternity.
> It seems to me that if the arising of this 'thing' would be an
> impossibility, it would also make it impossible for many other forms
> of suffering to take root, grow and cripple life.
> Anyone willing to look at this 'thorn' ?
That's the whole Issue.
The willingness/unwillingness to Look.
> We've heard and perhaps also seen, the self-image as a cause of hurt.
One step doesn't make for a journey.
> We've heard that if no 'ego'/I then there would'nt be any hurt.
Logic is a fishbowl.
> We've heard and done it perhaps succesfully to a certain
> extent/depth, the looking into it/awareness of it.
It's a fool's game to think we've done anything and to invent
successs/unsuccess.
For whom would be 'successful' in realizing no one?
> Or one has tried to 'meditate' it away via various techniques, and
> energy-work.
Again, who is trying to 'meditate away' who?
That's not real meditation.
> And the distraction,.. the absorbtion of attention into
> a 'high' does last a while.
The distraction from the pain.
The folly is that the pain is a call.
A path, if you will.
> And yet, 'it' is being reborn, again and again.
What is it?
> One might say that what is necessary is constant awareness..
> But can you have awareness when drowning/frying in deep/intense
> hurt ?
Not if one resists the suffering.
The intensity may diminish with awareness,
but if one makes a goal of getting rid of it,
it will surely increase.
> I do see that every moment, the thought structure fabricates stories
> about 'me-me'.. I am like this/that, I am good because.. and somebody
> drops in and tells me I am an ass.... or just ignores me, not even
> looking at me (for reasons of dislike or whatever)as if I was non-
> existant. And the 'thorn' instantly does its job.
No one ever really knows anyone.
> Now the 'story of me', being recreated thru the day, taking different
> forms... seems to be a very living business,.. it's not some
> fixed/uniform hurt which once seen, (though it does bring a relief),
> is uprooted for ever,.. is it ?
>
> So that's about as far as I can go with this enquiry..
> can you add, substract or bring a new observation to this ?
Logic has taken you as far as it can take you.
Some type of kinesthetic/body awareness may be quite helpful..
Like dancing, walking, running, karate...
any body movement/awareness where thinking stops
and you're just doing in the moment,
in the zone.
> It might sound sentimental, but to me, if this 'number' could be
> uprooted from our psychic, heaven might be just around the corner.
It's closer than you think
Blessings,
David
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