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Soul Sustenance 10-10-2012
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Do Love And Suffering Go Hand-In-Hand (Part 1)?
There are two things that touch or move us in life: pain and pleasure. Both
create addiction. We feel pain in the body, and sometimes it is even emotional.
But suffering arises in the mind. The suffering in the mind arises from thinking
negatively towards the self, towards others, looking at them with a vision or attitude
that causes grief, sorrow and suffering. Both extremes, pain and pleasure, can create
addiction. On creating addiction it can start to form part of someone's identity.
Later if one tries to stop the addiction of pain or suffering, it can almost feel
like a threat towards the self, and towards one's own identity as one perceives
it, because suffering is identified with. It is too hard to see oneself as no longer
suffering.
An e.g. in this regard is that of a mother, with three children, who was undergoing
a meditation course at one of the Brahma Kumaris centers. Her daughter had learned
to meditate and became very happy and joyful. Seeing her happiness the mother came
to learn to meditate. With a few sessions she felt much more at peace and had very
good experiences, but all of a sudden she decided to stop the meditation practice
and leave the course because she was starting experiencing a positive detachment,
which she perceived as negative. Now, she was no longer feeling afraid of what might
happen to her children. The meditation was awakening in her a love free from
fears, but it brought on in her an inner clash of beliefs between the
old and new beliefs. Her old belief was that to love someone is to suffer about them
or create pain related to them.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 10-10-2012
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To think less is to remain happy.
Expression: Usually there is a tendency to think more than normal when there
is a challenging situation. Although it is considered to be good to think more,
we usually miss out on the fact that thinking more means having lots of waste thoughts
along with those that are necessary.
Experience: When we find ourselves thinking a lot we need to ask ourselves
if all these thoughts are really necessary. We need to recognize waste thoughts
and replace them with something more positive. With this practice we'll find ourselves
thinking less and at the same time having powerful thoughts which will keep us cheerful
under all circumstances.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris