Message #3504

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

You state that 'being in the bad event is not the suffering'. Tell this to someone that is being shot at this moment.

Steve Hydonus

Being shot, I would presume would be very painful. Not counting those that feel no pain. When you are thinking you are gonna die, you are not gonna make it. You are gonna bleed to death. You will never see your family again. Am I gonna goto hell? Was I good enough? Did I do everything in my life that I should of? Was I nice enough?

All that there is the suffering. If you notice in all of those thoughts those were past, and future connotations. What happened, or what will happen.

Amor i am glad you brought up this subject again. i really do not think it is a 'trick question' as you described it. i do not think that one is always thinking of the past either. Have you ever felt excruciating pain? i have and most people have. You are totally in the now and feeling that agony and you would do anything to get out of the now. i am trying to make a point here. The point is that awareness is important at times. Although at other times like when we are in the trenches; all we can do is practice the presence or think of having divine help or pray outloud. Sometimes when we are practicing the presence all the time we often have to also be aware of what we are doing as well. Therefore it seems to me that practicing the presence and mindfulness are both an integral part of my spiritual life. There is no hard and fast rule for every occasion.

Finally we are never going to get out of this perdictiment called life where we have to feel these alternating waves of sorrow and joy, happiness and sadness, pain and pleasure etc. unless we practice meditation to eventually arrise above these doaulities.
Steve Hydonus