The 3 phases of suffering
My friend and fabulous healer, Julia, recently suggested that the path from suffering to joy has three phases. In the first phase, we suffer and suffer about our suffering. We hate it, pure and simple. We want liberation from it. If it continues, we begin to feel a certain “rightness” to the suffering. We feel like it’s a correct response to a certain kind of situation. Finally, we lose interest in our own suffering. We get tired of it and move onto joy. It becomes right not to choose suffering and embrace the truth of our joy instead.
August 29th, 2007 08:21
Your friend Julia is very wise. I have seen this also - but this is said VERY eloquently. Thank you!
August 29th, 2007 08:54
Thanks Lauren. The interesting dimension of suffering is the second phase where it becomes such a companion that we miss it and feel alone without it.
August 29th, 2007 21:57
May we all get tired of suffering!
August 29th, 2007 22:57
True, that Holly