Guest guest Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 10-25-08 – Post Is all suffering imagination? What is the cause of suffering? Other than thoughts, concepts, ideas, assumptions, beliefs, stories, images, does suffering exist at all? Is suffering rooted in the thought, concept, idea, assumption, belief, story, image that this is my life and I have to somehow make it work? Is suffering rooted in the untrue thought, the erroneous concept, the wrong idea, the false assumption, the fallacious, invalid, misleading, deceiving, delusory belief, the fictitious story, the running commentary, the fictional, imaginary, illusory, unreal image of the presence of a separate independent self-center, reference point, I me entity, individual, person? Who is suffering? What is the nature of suffering? Is suffering nothing other than self-centered thought, self-centered concepts, self-centered thinking itself? Is the separate independent self-center, reference point, I me entity, individual, person, the root of all self-centered thought, self-centered concepts, self-centered thinking, imaginary, just imagination? Is the I me thought added to the presently appearing sensation claiming I'm suffering? But is it true? Apart from thought, where is this I, where is this me, where is this suffering? Is all my suffering based on an imaginary I me entity, a thought based I me entity, a conceptual I me entity? Is the secondary added identification, the secondary added involvement of the conceptual I me entity, of the I me thought, the I me concept, the suffering itself? Is all suffering imagination? Is all my suffering based in imagination? Is there any suffering apart from imagination? Is all my suffering an imaginary story? Is what the imaginary story, is about, the suffering, or is the imaginary story itself the suffering? Without an imaginary story, without imagination, can there be any suffering? Other than the separate independent I me thought, concept, idea, assumption, belief, story, can any separate independent I me entity, individual, person be found? Is it non-existent? Is there no separate independent I me entity, individual, person, and yet, I am, present and aware? Are thoughts, concepts, ideas, assumptions, beliefs, stories, images, imagination just appearances arising because of, in and as non-dual, one without a second, non-conceptual, space-like awareness? Is this I, not a separate independent entity, individual, person, but awareness itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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