Seekers Suffering?

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The persistent attempt to maintain

belief/experience of a " me " who

has qualities and goes through states

*is* the suffering being discussed.

 

" Seeking " in the context being discussed

is equivalent to " believing/experiencing

an ongoing existing self in time " ...

whether or not the attempt to maintain such self

is associated with beliefs that it is

happily seeking, or unhappily seeking,

or happily not-seeking, or unhappily not-seeking.

 

It is ironic that the full extent of

the suffering involved won't be clear,

unless the basis (for any one who can

have qualities such as suffering or

existing happily) is not. In other words,

the self-system depends on denial of reality,

and the reality of what the suffering is,

is an aspect of what reality is. Reality

must be denied to make perceptual/experiential

claims of continuity for individuals,

things, and groups of

individuals and things.

 

-- Peace, Dan

 

 

> What I do not understand is why a seeker is supposed

> to suffer? Compared to

> before a person starts seeking, the seeker is very

> happy. Doesn't a seeker

> start seeking after at least a mystical experience?

> If a seeker is not after the bliss that he tasted

> during the mystical

> experience how can he suffer?

> For me at least it has been like riding on a speedy

> Tigers back. I cannot

> dismount nor do I want to.

> I don't know about this chakra business but my heart

> is very peaceful

> nowadays and I have almost no fear of anything.

> However there still is a

> lot of turmoil in my head, but definitely no

> suffering, anyway not as much

> as it was before. [And if there is any it is not due

> to the seeking.]

> ______________________

> With Love,

> Cyber Dervish

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