[NonDualPhil] Re : Dukkha - nervous system. / Pete ?

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Nisargadatta , Pedsie2@a... wrote:

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> In a message dated 4/18/05 4:53:01 PM, adithya_comming writes:

>

>

> > P:   Since you are in a wondering mood, when not, right?

> > >       Anyway, since you are wondering, why not wonder

> > >      about this: could there be suffering without short term

> > >      memory (and I don't mean any memory of Mrs. Short

> > >      is dukkha) Well, you know what I mean, those people

> > >      who can't remember what hapened a few seconds ago.

> > >

> > >  So, is mental suffering solely a product of memory? If

> > > your dearest die, but you forget about her death in a few

> > > seconds, and no matter how often you are reminded you

> > >  forget, could you suffer?   Even physical pain needs

> > > memory to be really painful does it not? If it's ever fresh,

> > > of this very moment, then it becomes quiet endurable,

> > > is it not so?

> > >

> > > Pete

> >

> > AC:Does having 'memory' of something needs to mean,

> > ... " be thinking " about it ???

> >

> P: Not necessarily thinking as the movement of thoughts,

> but bringing and holding into focus a memory, or a sensation,

> an emotion, or an image, etc.

> >

> > What is there when you are NOT thinking ?

> > ...is it Dukkha?

> >

> P: Thinking is not the only form of knowing,

> a scalded dog shies from a pot of hot water.

> If you learn the trick of " not taking delivery

> of what happens, " as Maharaj put it, then

> each moment of dukkha appears and disappears

> on its own, and we don't trail a stream of painful,

> noisy, empty dukkha cans like a newlywed car.

>

> Pete

 

 

 

The attempt to " not take delivery of what happens " .....is the problem...not the

solution.

 

 

 

 

 

toombaru.