Suffering
I am always aware that any distress on my part is caused by my thoughts about the situation or person. There is never an exception to this. The ego questions this and relies on physical pain to prove the point. But even physical pain is not proof against this fact.
When I am in pain, for instance, when I put my inured foot down wrong or too hard and I feel pain in it, if I am thinking that it shouldn’t be happening or what does it mean and what will happen because of it, I suffer. But if I just feel the pain and have no thoughts about it, the pain comes and goes and I don’t suffer, I just feel pain.
The other day, I had a really bad headache and this hardly ever happens anymore. I was surprised by it and wondered what caused it and why now? But then, I got on with my day and stopped thinking about it and I was fine. The next day the headache was gone and I wondered briefly what that was all about but then I let the thoughts go. Without thoughts, there is no suffering. This is an amazing discovery, really.
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