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Suffering Notes - (4591)

There is unconscious suffering, conscious suffering and prepared suffering.


Unconscious suffering does not have value.


Conscious suffering has great value, as through it, we can work towards perfecting ourselves. 


To suffer consciously we need to know what makes us suffer. Do we know what makes us to suffer?


The way of conscious suffering is to know how to make wise use of suffering.


Conscious suffering is like fire that tempers steel. It is the fire of conscious suffering that tempers and crystallizes the virtues in us. Without that fire of conscious suffering the values would not be able to be crystalize in us. 


We suffer consciously to become conscious. When we are conscious in the areas where previously consciously suffered suffering subsists.


The work is voluntarily subjecting ourselves to temporary suffering to liberate ourselves from vast expanses of suffering.


Pleasure that is not earnt turns into suffering. Such a truth.


It is very karmic for us to pass suffering onto others. We need to absorb and transform suffering, not pass it onto others. 


There is the need to know how to suffer. To pass it onto others is to not know how to suffer. To make us of suffering is to know how to suffer.


Conscious suffering pays for everything in time. The hardship and suffering is always paid for later in time - first by acquiring the virtue, secondly being able to enjoy the fruits of the virtue and thirdly compensation by the Divine Law.


Suffering breaks through the crust of self-deception that blocks the consciousness.


Unconscious suffering due to not having food to eat because we have run out of money does not have much value to the work of the essence. It is better to have food and not eat it. This gives value to crystalizing virtues in the essence, as it was done consciously.


Prepared suffering is when we know what makes us to suffer and we make use of it. This is the known gymnasium.


End (4591).

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