Actually
suffering does not exist at all. It is manifested in the mind through
the function of the senses and the ego attached to all the perceived
names and forms, and perceives the objects as suffering.
The
world we are living in or the happenings around us and in our life as
well as all the thoughts in the mind are neither suffering nor not
suffering.
They are just being what it is, but the intellect and the ego categorized them into suffering and happiness.
Suffering
and happiness only exist in the perception of those who are still under
the influence of the mind, the intellect and the ego.
When the
lower self is attached to and identified itself with the mind, the
intellect and the ego, the body, the senses and the worldly experiences
in life, then the lower self is identifying and associating with
everything that the mind is perceiving.
The consciousness of this
type of people is conditioned by the information and judgment coming
from the function of the ego and the intellect. Thus whatever the six
senses perceive will go through the process of identification and
categorization from the intellect and then the ego will assert likes and
dislikes in the mind, and generate craving and aversion towards what it
likes and dislikes.
The lower self that is identified with the
mind and its functions, will comprehend what is happening as either good
or bad, happiness or suffering, and generate likes and dislikes,
craving and aversion.
For those who already know what is actually
happening in these perceptions of names and forms, and they detached
themselves from the mind, the intellect and the ego, they are not
affected by the terms and conditions that the mind and its functions
trying to tell us, '‘this is I’', ‘'I am good'’, ‘'I am bad'’, ‘'this is
happiness’', '‘this is suffering’', ‘'I am happy'’ and ‘'I am sad'’.
When
a person is awakened from this delusion, he will find that his
happiness has nothing to do with all the things outside. His gives no
value to the word ‘'suffering’'. He stops categorizing things into good
and bad. But it doesn’t mean that now he can does whatever he wants,
such as hurting other people or being evil or immoral. He will have
total self-control over his thoughts, actions and speech, and not being
over-powered by what the ego wants and doesn't want, likes and dislikes,
agrees and disagrees.
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