The Root of Suffering (Excerpt)
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- Adya points out that our suffering is caused by our misperceptions and the illusion of separateness. Excerpted from September 12, 2007, Palo Alto Meeting, “The Cause of Suffering”: bit.ly/3KUMVX3
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Quote from this Video: “If I’m suffering in any way, it is because I am misperceiving reality. It’s not because this is happening or so and so said this or so and so did this. It’s because I’m actually misperceiving reality.” adyashanti.org
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If one is to spend their lifetime thinking, one might aswell do so efficiently by questioning the very roots of thinking itself. After all, if all we do in life is please ourselves, then we at least ought to know what that self really is.
After watching a number of these discussions, and many other similar dialogues, I have noticed a pattern and theme. Nearly all of the time and energy is spent refining and organizing the rhetoric and terminology so that some kind of agreement can be reached, so that an “ah ha” or an “i get it” can be achieved. And there’s a problem with this. This seems to function as an endeavor seeking relief from the confusion and tension of a thought based analysis of reality. Don’t spend too much time in this mental space. It can perpetuate a disintegrated stance and result in perpetually limited and diminished experience. I say to myself, “live your life.”
@@timetobenotdo Precisely; but one mustn't overthink the proper way to live. For thought is but a game of mental Legos. In which we are but a small piece in a Lego castle so big that it's constantly in our field of experience. Too rigid to move it away, yet the want to move it is itself part of that very construction.
Don't resist but shift your focus.
Because reality is everything; and merely your focus and judgement determine which parts of it you experience as real. Mind determines which are good or bad, right or wrong, not because it is correct in assuming so, but because it allows mind to limit it's experience to tiny strips of data which are easily digested. To shut the curtains on life in favor of building that Lego Castle.
We don't raise children, we build thinking machines. And then we wonder about all the troubles we get ourselves into. To think that intelligence is solely linked to logical thought was our biggest ever mistake.
@@Nicoladen1 Yes, there’s no way we can think ourselves out of the habit of thinking. Making the process of thinking into our main enemy will only lead to more suffering. Thinking or non-thinking is not what we should be focusing on. Our practice should focus on learning what mind really is. That process of learning goes way beyond mere thinking. When we understand how misconceptions arise we also understand how to relate to reality and ourselves in an unmistaken way. Then we understand from the root why craving and rejection is based on misconceptions. Then we abandon those tendencies naturally and without effort. We have seen and understood the root of our sufferings. As long as the root-cause and our fundamental nature haven’t been understood or experienced we will have other beliefs about ourself and the world than the real one. Thus we will continue to relate to ourselves and the world of phenomena in all kinds of mistaken ways.
@@timetobenotdo thanks, this point is so important. Fortunately more and more people ask this question. Still we should not pour out the baby with the bath water. Just to drop all spiritual approach and "live my life" due to my social conditioning is also no answer, I guess. There is some truth and it is huge. No doubt for me anymore. But what is and can be the connection to relative life? How to bring them in harmony? Is there an interaction between them? But I agree, the spiritual rethoric is often way to simple, limited and in the context of "ultimate truth" sort of dangerous.
I needed this right now ❤️❤️
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It's amazing, it's astounding... Different people, from different places, who have never had any contact with one another, not only reaching the same conclusions, but expressing it in exactly the same words. Extraordinary.
Thank you for posting these older videos. I can’t thank you enough for this. ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, these are timeless words of wisdom and needs to be available to us no matter when we hear them in the continuum of space and time.
Muchísimas gracias!!!❤🙏😊
"suffering is caused by misperception of the way things are."' Im on a life-long quest to understand everything; instead of distracting myself from my unresolved pain. Understanding "the reality" of "little Sue's " life on a psychological level led/leads to much more suffering. But when I'm not operating from personality I am peace and love.❤ Still have difficulty not shrinking back into personality when interacting with people. ..but getting better with practice.🤗❤❤
The world is happening. Suffering is when the happening isn’t happening as you thought it would happen.
Everything is just perfect. It’s not what you perceive it’s how you perceive.
I’m going to the doctors tomorrow to see if they can change my perceiver
"I see only the past"
A course in miracles
Thank you 🙏
Thanks!
Gratitude Master❤🙏🏻
Brilliant !
Blessed Be Received what I needed to hear Now! Thank 🙏 You
Thank you
Oh Adya
Aumen ❤🙏🏻
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U not quest...how 2 get rid of fear 4 example...rather u quest...what exactly is it...go 2 its root...therfore I really like pur Zen = just clearing all in the most simple and practical way. Yoga is also great...though its more playful...its not that straight...though its nice 2...as a tool...a essence light of teaching 2 awaken from ones own mental set up and its motions.
Thx❤4 the uplouds...like 2 listen 2 myclear light❤
Wow..I was checking in myself why does the mispercepption happen n it's always resistance to what is n wanting it to be difficult than what is
Thank you 🙏🏻❤️
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How is to "deal" with a sitution where one of the parent tell the child that she: does not poses the art of being loved? I was 9 year old. It broke me. Is that a misperception, realy?
Can we suffer without being aware we are suffering?
Yes
That is probably what most people are doing. That is why awareness is so important.
Actually, when we are becoming increasingly aware we often experience more suffering as well. This is not because awareness produces suffering but because we are just becoming increasingly aware of the suffering we have been carrying with us a long time.
For many practitioners the path towards awakening is a gradual one. It is as if we only allow ourselves to experience the maximum amount of suffering and adverse reactions to our ignorance in degrees that we can handle at the moment. This is the reason why the path towards enlightenment is a gradual path for most people rather than an instantaneous event. In theory, enlightenment is just a fraction of a second away, always. But in reality the journey towards it involves a lot of letting go - holding back along the way for most of us. To traverse the path towards enlightenment involves a lot of courage. At the end it comes down to if we dare letting go of our mistaken belief in a self, or not.
A very unfortunate outcome of an overwhelming experience of suffering is that we believe it to be truly existent. Moreover, our belief in the existence of a self is often reinforced by the experience of suffering. It is as if the self seeks confirmation of its own existence in the perceived existence of the suffering we experience. Through this backwards logic the self finds ways to persuade us to hold onto an existence of a self believing that only then can we overcome suffering. This leads to a neurotic clinging to the sufferings we experience as a confirmation of our “personality” an “destined life” we project. The suffering we experience becomes our own and we cling to it as something precious.
so a child who is born suring the war, loses his/or her family; who has to deal with deep trauma, and a sensse of loss until e healer can help--are you saying that's all just illusion>!
It’s illusion in the sense what happens to the body can be observed from a higher place that isn’t touched by what happens to the body. Life Itself is what animates us and gives us all the experiences of living. Finding, feeling and trusting that “Life Itself” is enlightenment. I was that traumatized, war-torn child that somehow made it to that understanding and am okay now.
Suffering is not illusion but for what you are suffering or what makes you suffer is .