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Namah Suffering — the postman

pain, but there is no one saying from within Suffering as the postman
them, 'Why me? Why has God done this to
me?' In their innocence they are saved from It feels like the Universe is so much in love
the suffering. with each one of us that it cannot see us suffer.
And therefore, it gives us indications, hints,
More often for us, suffering continues in clues, pointing out, ‘Hey, no need to attach
some form or another, for many years before yourself to that mental image, or concept’; and
we even become aware of it as ‘suffering.’ it communicates to us by creating suffering.
We often see that yes, life is a struggle, life Why suffering? Because we cannot avoid
has stress, tensions, conflicts, issues and noticing it, we cannot ignore it owing to its
problems, and hence I also have struggles, intensity, we will have to pay attention to
suffering and stress, what is the big deal about it, sooner or later and listen to the message
it? So, instead of taking the message from of the Universe. It feels like suffering is
the postman (suffering), I make suffering nothing but a side-effect or a symptom of
a way of life, I pull the postman inside my knowing myself wrongly as a separate limited
home and give him a permanent residency person, identifying myself with the body,
there. I feel that yes, life is sorrow, not only with a mental image, with conceptions and
for me but for everyone, so why should I identifying myself with the feelings. It seems
even try to find out a way and investigate like the intelligence of the being gives us a red
suffering? I never take enough care to go signal, in the form of suffering (which is hard
to the root of suffering. I rarely investigate to ignore), whenever we attach ourselves
and question my own belief-system, my own mistakenly to a concept or an idea about
mental, emotional patterns which may be ourselves.
from behind the scenes, responsible for the
suffering. Can we see it like that? Can I see that,
whenever suffering is there in my life, it
Hence, a perpetual misery continues, first is nothing but a signal that I am mistaking
appearing as mental suffering, then emotional, myself to be the body, or to be the thought
and slowly converting and lodging in the or the feelings? If I begin to look at myself
physical cells of the body, and surfacing as as the allowing space that allows all of the
physical manifestations, like chronic illnesses. drama and melodrama to happen, in which
What is really happening? the drama can arise and fade away, then I see
that I do not suffer. I may be going through
an illness, and suffering may arise saying,
‘When will this end, why is God so cruel to
me, why me, will I ever get better, what will
happen to my close ones after me, etc?’ Is
it possible that when I know that the body
has got a certain illness, I see that yes, the
illness is there, but I am still here, being a
witness to the body changing; my thoughts
cannot be me, because the thoughts keep on

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