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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 2, 15th July 2022

truly am! But the Divine is compassionate, on how to suffer well. To paraphrase him,
merciful, and hence, things don’t always if we can mindfully be conscious of the
remain seeming hunky dory according to my suffering, if a part of my being is always
wishes and fancies. Things change, people rooted in the present moment, mind in the
change, people go away, jobs are lost, and body, then whatever pain arises, whatever
hence, the ground, my stable ground, gets suffering arises can be met fully. And the
ripped apart from beneath my feet. And it energy of mindfulness creates a greater
makes me suffer, as I had wanted stability vibration which embraces the energy of
in the fleeting. suffering, and is able to dissolve it in the
loving embrace. The Mother also talks about
Now, we have a golden opportunity. To be the power of a greater vibration created by
completely okay with groundlessness, the focused and precise consciousness, and how it
infinity, or in other words we can say, to has the power and precision that cuts through
rely solely on the Divine, on consciousness/ confusion and falsehood (7).
pristine awareness (as called in Buddhism),
our groundless ground. Because if things
really go decently well according to my
standards, who cares to change or move
towards the Divine? Who cares to transcend
the limited sense of self? No one! It is only
when I suffer, when I truly lose my ground,
that suffering enters my life, and to seek for
a sense of respite, I am willing to go within,
and know the suffering to its roots, and hence
have the possibility for a great adventure, to
identify myself with the true consciousness!

Choosing to suffer well

The greater the suffering, or let us put it
this way — the greater the unease or the The Mother guides us, how to use the suffering
greater the sensitivity to the unease created well, when it is there:
by suffering — the greater is the possibility,
the thrust towards a greater discovery! So, “If at any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt
we see that suffering is not the problem, it is or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives
just that I have to learn how to suffer well. you to despair, there is an infallible way to
How to transmute suffering into something regain calm and peace. In the depths of our
beautiful, something deep, touching the being there shines a light whose brilliance is
depths of myself and others. equalled only by its purity; a light, a living
and conscious portion of a universal godhead
The great master and teacher, Thich Naht who animates and nourishes and illumines
Hahn has shared beautiful words of teaching Matter, a powerful and unfailing guide for

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