'End of suffering'

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I am sorry I di not give proper subject title in my last posting on teachings of Ramesh balsekar.

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Now the question really is: what kind of thoughtmerely stirs the

'absence of suffering' that is beingexperienced, and the kind of

thought that absolutelyshatters the very foundation of experience?

Any

thought that concerns life as it is happening will becountered by

another thought suggesting the solutionfor the problem created by the

earlier thought: theexperience is only stirred but not shaken

orshattered.

What then is the kind of thought that cannot becontrolled and could

shatter the very foundation ofthat rare, wonderful experience? I

think everyone'sexperience would confirm that this is the kind of

thought that arises from memory-again beyond any one'scontrol- that

refers to something harmful one did tosome friend, or something one

could have done for afriend, which the friend expected from him, but

which

one did not do, for some reason or the other with theresult that

friend suffered a great deal of damage. Itis this thought of

something one did to someone orsomething one did not do for

someone-and this could

have happened 20 years ago!- that truly shatters thevery foundation of

that great experience. There is, ofcourse, the other aspect of the

same thought: theenormous load of hatred and malice towards 'the

other'

who did some harm or did not do the substantial favorhe could have

done. Therefore, what really totallyshatters the experience is either

the load of guilt orshame for some thing one did or did not do or the

load

of hatred and malice for what the 'other' did or didnot do. In other

words, what shatters the veryfoundation of the experience is volition

or the senseof personal doer ship-whether it is 'me' or the'other'.

What we have arrived at, from almost everyone'sexperience, is the fact

that one has had the actualexperience of 'the end of suffering' in

daily living,but that it does not last because it is shattered by

the volition or sense of personal doer ship in thelife of human being.

So now the question is: is it allpossible to give up the sense of

personal doership sothat one can be anchored in the experience of

'the end

of suffering' while facing life from moment to momentthe answer, of

course, is yes it can be done becausethere have been people who have

been accepted by theworld as 'sages' who have indeed been actually

examples of individuals for whom 'the end ofsuffering' has happened.

What this 'end of suffering'means positively can be clearly seen in

the way thesesages have fared in their own daily living. What wesee

is that these sages seem to live from moment to

moment, enjoying the same pleasures and suffering thesame kind of

pains that the ordinary person issubjected to, but anchored in peace

and harmony. (tobe continued)Ramana Sarma