Guest guest Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033 wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " skywhilds " <skywords@> wrote: > > > > > > > >I only want to know how you yourself are feeling. Please do not > > talk to me about no-self, nor about abstract situations. So that I > > may feel your love and offer mine in return. > > > > I am no longer interested in the semantics of being an island. If you > > suffer, open the door to love in love. If you do not suffer, why > > list, why anything? > > > > Listing, being, is suffering, anyone who denies this is suffering too > > much to admit it. > > > > Love is beautiful suffering in hope of healing transformation though > > another, is it not? > > > > No one is beyond hope, beauty, transformation, the longing for another > > to love and be loved. > > > > ~*~ > > People talk about their concern to end suffering, theirs or someone > else's. > > That very attempt to end suffering, or to have a solution for > suffering, it itself a form of suffering. And of course, it's a form > of suffering that has been *very* good for organized religions. > > Suffering isn't problematic, in and of itself, as it is. > > What gets problematic is the attaching to suffering, or conceiving of > an opposite state that one wants to attach to, or conceiving suffering > as something needing to be got rid of. Often, the conceiving it as > something better to be got rid of, and the attaching to it, are the > same process. > > There's where the excessive friction comes in. > > If one is suffering, one can suffer honestly and nonproblematically, > although generally people complicate it and make it worse than it is. > If one isn't suffering, then no need to try to manufacture it. How > it is, it is. If someone else is there and a loving connection is, > then it is. If a bond is broken, then it is time for a bond to break. > Nothing to attach to, in either situation. > > There's no need to look for a remedy, or to hold a person or some kind > of state of being in love as a solution. > > Love isn't a remedy for suffering. > > Love is able to embody suffering without trying to move away to some > other state of being, without requiring a transformation of itself > into something else. > > To think someone else will be the answer for one's suffering, often > tends to compound one's suffering. > > -- Dan > love is welcoming what comes... without even empasizing what comes... loves very nature is loving... and loving dont judge what comes... ....iietsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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