Dontaskme wrote:the problem lies with the identification with a self, that's the suffering
Lacewing wrote:Why is it really a problem?
Mainly, the problem is because of (Pain) and (Suffering) ....Any thing that makes the claim (I suffer) .... is isolating oneself from the ALL resulting in lack or fear, it is to cut oneself off from the real beauty of ALL that is.
But I agree with you in that it doesn't matter if that's what's happening, is appearing to be, it doesn't make any difference to oneness because it's not oneness that is suffering here at all. The mirror is never effected by what it reflects whether it be pain or pleasure. But the sentient creature is designed to move more towards pleasure and avoid pain...and that is the suffering.
Life dictates pain, pleasure,emotions and feeling anyway so all these senses are unavoidable. But they are just sensations, they are not real. In the human consciousness this can be seen that none of what happens to us is ever personal.,and that all senses are arising from nowhere, and not from the body, the body is just the sensor mechanism, the body never suffered the pain, or is interested in pleasure, it's job is just to function and survive. It's the mind that says, this is my pleasure or my pain, or my body, but that's the illusion, there is no separate mind or my thoughts that are real, but it sure does feel like there is, and that's just how this energy plays out as if it were really happening to a me inside this body.
If there is the sense of ' separate me' then that too is just this oneness playing the sense of 'me' ....but that suffering appearing to be happening to a 'sense of me' is the illusion, it's happening, but not to one particular thing..in reality there is no 'me' being 'me', there's just boundless beingness aka everything appearing as if there is a me.
Nothing is a problem, but it can appear that way when there is identification with the 'me' that's not actually there. So this is about the end of suffering for the imagined 'me'...but if people don't care about the end of suffering, that too is what's being expressed by everything aka oneness.
There is nothing wrong with suffering, like I've already mentioned before, suffering is part of the dynamic of beingness, it serves as reminder that beneath all suffering is the bliss of your true nature which is this boundless unconditional oneness or love that never ever suffered. Knowing this is beautiful because one can simply rest there instead of identifying with something that's not real and that will always pass away, but what you truly are never passes away. The freedom of no mind/self is all that we are and that's what makes life so beautiful because it is so boundlessly free and closer and more intimate that our very own skin.
It's just that some people start to question this 'me' that apparently suffers in the desire to end that suffering, and that is when the realisation comes of oneness without a second .. but in other people there is no questioning about their 'me' and those people live out the rest of their lives in quiet desperation and limitation...and then get offended when their small mindedness is pointed out to them as if they were trying to defend something, never quite knowing the freedom, richness and vastness of their true being that never needs to be defended because it's everything that ever was /is forever.