Born to suffer ?

[Guest guest]

Extract from interview with Eckhart Tolle

(apologies for unaligned text)

 

The human mind is the

conditioned consciousness that has taken form as thought. The conditioned

consciousness is the whole world that is created by the conditioned mind.

Everything is our conditioned consciousness; even objects are. Conditioned

consciousness has taken birth as form and then that becomes the world. So

to be lost in the conditioned seems to be necessary for humans. It seems

to be part of their path to be lost in the world, to be lost in the mind,

which is the conditioned consciousness.

Then, due to the suffering that arises out of being lost, one finds the

unconditioned as oneself. And that is why we need the world to transcend

the world. So I'm infinitely grateful for having been lost.

The purpose of the world is for you to be lost in it, ultimately. The

purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that

seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen. And then once the

awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is

unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have

transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering.

This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in

this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a

spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would

get there eventually. But that could take time.

 

 

 

 

 

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