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Originally Posted by sat2493
This really expanded my perspective on heaven and hell. There's so much I want to understand about suffering. May I ask if you are a practicing Muslim? I would like to know how Islam approaches suffering and whether Islam includes a set of practices to help understand suffering better.
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It's all energy. There is mild suffering like being irritated. All the way to deep despair. And fear.
You basically focus on things which allow your energy to flow freely, which feel good emotionally. Which is faith. Thoughts which when you think them feel better. So from despair, it may feel better to think thoughts of shame or guilt. Thats why punishment can sometimes be a mercy. Like realising you're doing something wrong or not good for yourself or others. Then ur free from doing that. You find a better way to live. And ur free from the resistance of misunderstanding or ignorance or arrogance and so u no longer suffer it.
They are still resistant and negative. When you feel bad. But the path of lesser resistance = the path of least resistance. So if you understand u did something bad, u still feel bad, but atleast you know you did something wrong so u no longer have to fear lack of knowledge. So you feel better. And your energy is more in alignment with God Source Energy of ever expanding pure positive energy.
Then full surrender and acceptance is like being at peace and content with life. And the moreness of that surrender and alignment and flow is of appreciation. And God Source and life force flows throughout all things everywhere omni present. Eternal ever expanding. From God to soul to human. Even nature. All things flow from God. And God expands with all things in creation. If you allow your consciousness to flow naturally you feel good, you are happy, content, at peace, you focus on good things and you can appreciate many things.
But if you have allot of negative thoughts and energy, and habbits and behaviours, you cannot appreciate anything, because appreciation is of high pure positive energy, like God Source Energy, like love, mercy and all good things. So practice is to keep your habbits and thoughts clean and pure and supportive of alignment with God Source Energy Consciouness of infinite intelligence love and wisdom and knowledge.
If you have resistance, that energy is uncomfortable. That is what hell is. It is proof that every soul, thing and being in existence is inseperable from God Source. An inseperable extension of God Source. But you can in your free will offer resistance and focus on resistant thoughts which cause you to diminish your receiving of this mercy, consciously. The mercy of God still always flows to all. But if you offer resistant thoughts, It lessens your conscious awareness and allowance/allowing of this grace/love/mercy/goodness that always flows from God Source to all. And then Can no longer appreciate things and feel despair or sad. But this pain/suffering is eternal, because no matter how much you resist the energy that flows from your source, you can never become seperated, so God Source keeps flowing to you, and it hurts, untill you let go of resistance and this energy then naturally heals you and guides you to your natural well-being. So, there is no need to suffer. If you allow suffering and surrender then you naturally come back into alignment with well-being and God Source and you no longer suffer, you just praise all that exists and life and God. Because releasing resistance/surrender opens your consciousness so you can see and recognize all good things again.
And islam helps people practice this state of allowing connection consciously to god to flow into and throughout ones entire life. For your benefit and good life and those around you.
Things which are resistant in nature feel bad, like doing bad things, hating people, judging them, etc. But if you keep doing it, even tho God does not agree with you and does not do those things, then you create resistant energy in your life and consciousness, then you keep feeling worse and your energy keeps becoming more resistant. Untill your suffering is so bad that you begin to experience despair, which are really of eternal suffering. That suffering can become infinitely painful and often causes death if it is allowed to maintain, that resistance of fear and despair and such. Thinking very negatively all the time can create illness even. But its all about free will. No one can do that to you. Only one can choose to think that. Often people think bad because their friend/family think bad aswell, but its always better for you and then to keep your thoughts pure and clean and your life becomes pure and clean and good. Thats what all islamic practices are about. To live a good joyous life together with God to whom all praise goes and comes. And expands forever all good things also for you if you allow it.
So from my point of view, since everything is energy and consciousness. Heaven and hell can be seen like allowing/resistant energy. Islam is surrender allowing acceptance and peace. Like the quote "let go and let god." Be at peace. Enjoy all good things in life. Be content. Practice contentment. Be ok with everything. Accept everything. Be at peace and live in peace. And god is always with you and all. When you let go and let god its all good. No reason to worry ever. You can create suffering or you can allow praise and joy and peace.
But it takes practice. Its easier to live peace and practice praise of God every day a bit and bit more. If you have allot of resistance, try to go for a little bit less and less resistance. And then when at peace, can even release more resistance. Allowing is peace. More allowing. More hopeful. Can see more goodness in all things and allow more goodness to be realised from within and without. And you live more in grace of God.