naturesflow |
27-02-2018 03:57 AM |
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Originally Posted by Gem
The basis of Gotama's teachings is to acknowledge ones own suffering, find the cause, and thus end suffering.
Most of us suffer and find cause in external things that hurt us. This means suffering is linked to sensation. The question is, does sensation cause suffering, or is it the way we relate to sensation that is cause?
In the meditation, mindfulness, we are aware of ourselves, body, mind, emotion, just as they are as they happen to arise. The obstacle to this is 'distraction'. We can drift off into autopilot and become unconscious of what is actually happening, and instead, live in an imaginary world created in reaction to the actual real lived experience.
In sitting practice we soon see we are aware of our sensation and thought, and then we drift away into imaginary pasts, futures and fantasies. It's not bad or incorrect to do this. The meditation practice just enables a conscious recognition of it. Now you know, 'so this is what I do'.
From that preliminary, the the same process of being aware, noticing and discovering continues, revealing the truth about ourselves. Through this process of 'sati' we soon come to learn about how we relate to sensation - including physical, emotional and psychological - and come to realise how we cause our own suffering by relating to sensation in a somewhat delusional way.
Once this cause is identified, each new arising of suffering is recognised as 'something I do', rather than 'something that happens to me'... and we are thereby led to understand the way to bring suffering to an end.
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Thankyou for sharing.
I relate this to the point of when I realized that to end all suffering in myself I had to take full responsibility for all things reacting, moving in myself, creating ideas about, with regards to all external occurrence's. This was a turning point for myself to learn that I could go that deep in myself from moment to moment of my life and grow through the lived the experience rather than just through a sitting practice as such, I make use of the sitting practice as my "presence wherever I am" practice in the life experience itself... In some ways you might call this a conscious living the meditation practice. Now I see things more directly as they are including myself, and my movements are often much less in relation to external matters now. Staying present feels less draining, less taxing and effortless now.
IN reading through your words, it shows me what I believe, that the potential to end suffering is only as real as deep and real you can get with yourself. Being totally self reflective with all occurrence's going on within the mind/body system, to become the bridge to pure consciousness or spiritual transcendence. My own mystical experiences allowed me to see this early on in my process, to show me the way to moving from mind to feeling mode to release the fullness of my own involvement through a faster manifestation process that was coming in the future as one.
Also through this process, I was able to notice the differences between detachment and resting more open and aware in the fullness of knowing/clear feeling and seeing. I remember going that deep into each strain of my own personal issues connected to my own suffering, that I could pull the root completely away eventually, allowing a clean canvas to be created ready for planting. There are many ways to heal and end suffering, but certainly I relate to the end of suffering when you can find all end points in your own mind/body awareness that no longer reacts to itself..
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