Don’t be Afraid of Pain - (554)

Introduction

A major part of our lives is all about avoiding pain. Pain in so many ways rules our lives. My missionary told us that one very important step in awakening is to liberate ourselves from pain.

As long as the ego is alive there will always be some kind of pain that we will experience. It seems like we can’t avoid it. Well experience is showing me that we can’t until avoid it until the ego is all dead.

So we have to either get use to it or learn somehow to not be phased by it. To experience it with awareness observing it but having the attitude that and firm knowledge that it will pass through us and go, pain is always leaving us actually. Because its job is to take us to healing what is wrong.

Liberate It

There are two steps to doing this. The full way is to penetrate deep into the pain and dissolve it from the inside. This takes time and lots of comprehension. This though is the full final solution and it also requires the payment of many Karmic debts.

The first step, is to be open to pain, to not fear it, to understand deeply that it there to heal us, to indicate to us what is wrong and for us to fix it. It is actually a friend. If we start to not fear it we are getting free of it, we are allowing it to function in us and to fulfil its function within us. The main thing is to no longer avoid and fear it. Then we are starting to get free of it and it is going to stop ruling our lives. This though is emotional pain not the physical pain.

People who Self-Harm

All of the people who harm themselves have all come from very troubled pasts. They are all in pain. No one of them is totally happy and free of pain, they are deeply in it. They are compensating for not being able to control or deal with their pain. So they harm themselves inflict upon themselves pain in a way that they can control and mange. They only do it physically because they know the body will make it pass but they never go into difficult emotional situations to feel pain, they know that that is what they really fear and that is where their pain comes from.

Conclusion

When we know how to go to the Being to solve the pain, and ourselves together with the Being (in us) solves our pain we are free of that particular pain.

The essence and the Being are the balm to our pains. But before that we need to be able to open to the pain to allow it to move though us and to teach us what is wrong with our inner psychological functioning. Then we must act to correct it and then change and then the pain serves its purpose to take us to healing.

Please note, in this post I am referring to emotional psychological pain, not the physical pain. If we feel physical pain we should act to heal it straight away.

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