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how to dissolve suffering

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  • Started 2 months ago by David
  • Latest reply from abstractprophet

  1. David
    Member

    David

    Apart from wondering about our existence, our very nature or our pure essence there are times when all seems to be just right,just ok and in no need of my/our intervention even if all is chaos and not right in this world.

    I can sit back and generally not concern myself with my own problems which are varied and complex to some degree or another. I expect that we all have our own problems and experiences of dealing with them. There is a great way to alleviate the suffering these problems cause....

    I would like to share this experience with you if you don't mind

    Now remember this... when you dissolve sugar into water the water becomes sweet to drink!!

    Every time you see yourself suffering just sip the sweet tasting water.

    I will start by explaining my experience to you.

    After reading and re-reading the Book 'Bhagavad-Gita As It Is' Thanks Star (Smile) and prepared to go to sleep it occurred to me that at that moment I would completely give myself to Lord Krsna and accept his authority. His wish is my command so to speak, I did this just to try and understand it the way Arjuna did.

    This is hard to explain hence the saying above Ive created for you, lest I forget as you can do with dreams or just in case words are hard to find.

    Just imagine the water is your suffering, regardless of what type of suffering or what degree of suffering your experiencing right now, We all know that to suffer is an illusion in its own right and that any attachment will cause you to suffer more.

    Like water suffering constantly moves ebbs and flows, constantly changes both in size and shape. Water on its own has a bland neutral taste, Not many people I know will drink straight from the tap without first diluting something with it, see what Im saying?

    Now imagine the sugar as described above is that sweet tasting nectar you can feel is the real you deep within your self, dissolving in your troubled water, your problems, your suffering are beginning to taste that little bit better.

    Just imagine feeling pleasure where there is pain, or sorrow transmuted to wonder, or loneliness transmuted to the feeling of being loved and wanted

    Spiritually I cant put into words the total experience Im trying to describe, my description above does it no credit and mearly describes it in simple terms, I just hope somewhere someone at some point will read this and it will help them in there time of need

    Insight is such a wonderful thing

    Posted 2 months ago #
  2. Star

    tasting the sweet waters...the waters of life...
    as they flow out of your very being...
    transforming the feeling...into pure bliss...
    from suffering...this is your own freeing...
    tlc...

    much love and joy...*

    Posted 1 month ago #
  3. David
    Member

    David

    Thank you Star. Its nice to know Im on the right track

    Posted 1 month ago #
  4. Ekanta
    Member

    Ekanta

    Without ego there is no suffering. Imagine urself dead in the grave, where is suffering? Its all the problem of the ego-ID. The sweetness u describe is the sweetness without ego. At lunch today I sat for a while studying some folks around, seeing how they reacted to the things around them, identified completely with the current role they play, seeing them worry about what to do next... as if it ever were part of themselves. How funny it was, all made up in the mind alone.
    But how to communicate it? Perhaps scream in their ear:
    - Hallo, where are you?

    Posted 1 month ago #
  5. Immortellle
    Member

    Immortellle

    Suffering is merely the personal self that is not here in manifestation. The ones who think that they are in control somehow cannot help but suffer from their self-made illusion.

    Posted 1 month ago #
  6. Mary
    Member

    Mary

    David, I think suffering is part of the journey. Sorry to say, I do think it's true.

    Thankful to say we may not suffer as much as those gone before us.

    David, think of your values and live by those ? What do you believe to be true? Just a suggestion. hugs and support to you !

    Posted 1 month ago #
  7. abstractprophet

    when one stops resisting suffering and acknowedges its ability to cleanse and foster growth then suffering flowers like anything else.

    blah blah blah.

    Posted 1 month ago #
  8. Immortellle
    Member

    Immortellle

    Ditto :)

    Posted 1 month ago #
  9. abstractprophet

    i like the water anology however i think water without sugar is closer to the essense of who we are.

    have you ever seen a child after they have had a sugar hit. this is as good a place as any to start when looking for the root of addiction.

    :o)

    <edit> i would just like to add that since starting to drink at least 2 litres of water a day my feeling of wellbeing has improved substantially.

    Posted 1 month ago #

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