The End of Suffering.

oh good I got a chuckle...but honestly I can't conceptualize experiencing resistance to an extent that it would satisfy a mind....however when you choose to be aware of the very process of pain it's the fear of experiencing it that manifests the resistance that holds it in check but hey don't take my word for it...try this at home kids......& I'm still not on the same page with awareness being a naff answer might just be the different ways of looking at it

[Xan]

Originally Posted by Gem

... but I can't feel anything so I know nothing is really happening.

Gem... All you really know is this something is not happening for you. It's a closed mind that says, "If I don't experience it, it doesn't exist." whereas a more honest response would be, "I don't know about that because I don't experience it."


Xan

[Xan]

Originally Posted by not human

actually guys my experience is that change doesn't hurt ....just the resistance to change hurts if you shift the way of interacting than the attachment to the pain of change will fall away & this can certainly be acheived on an individual basis

... by awareness

Yep... By shifting our awareness we interact and respond differently to whatever is going on. Where our attention lies determines our reality of the moment. In fact I see this as our only real power... the ability to choose where our awareness/attention goes, and our experience along with it.

We can keep our attention in the pleasure/pain continuum, or hold our attention in suffering, or in the quiet open space of being, or in love Itself, or........

Our choice... once we recognize that we have options.


Xan

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Xan

Gem... All you really know is this something is not happening for you. It's a closed mind that says, "If I don't experience it, it doesn't exist." whereas a more honest response would be, "I don't know about that because I don't experience it."


Xan

I'm different about it... you make presumptions based upon you being here for divine purposes which places others in a catagory you assign. You don't realize that and I understand, but I don't fit the paradigm, so I have no interest telling people what I know particularly, and only talk, because anyone can explore their particular pains and also their means of resolution.

[Xan]

Gee Gem... I have no idea what you said except you seem to presume I am making presumptions about other people... ha ha

I do assume that in essence we are all the same... the same whole awareness and the same pure love, and the same ability to recognize and experience this by one means or another.


Xan

[Xan]

I borrowed this from Mattie's signature:


'We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.'

- Carlos Castaneda


Xan