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🐟 15. SUFFERING & HAPPINESS: To understand the nature of suffering, it is ABSOLUTELY imperative to first distinguish suffering from pain (and too, happiness from pleasure). There is a spectrum of pleasure and pain, with an extremely narrow neutral mid-point. Obviously, what constitutes a pleasurable or painful experience is dependent on an individual person's unique preferences. Not everybody likes the taste of chocolate. The feeling of pleasure/pain does NOT, ultimately, come from any external stimulus, believe it or not. It is located entirely in the mind and/or the intellect. That is the reason why highly-advanced spiritual adepts are able to renounce practically all pleasure-seeking activities, content with consuming simple foodstuffs and adequate sleep, and find continuous peace, happiness, and joy, within themselves (“ātmarāma” or “sva-sthaḥ”, in Sanskrit). Furthermore, the adjudication of whether a certain experience is either pleasurable or painful for a particular person can VARY according to circumstance. For example, one may have enjoyed consuming dairy products as a child, but as a vegetarian/vegan adult, find the taste of putrefied milk (cheese, yoghurt, butter, etc.) to be revolting. For one who is dying of starvation, the consumption of cactus leaves may seem to be rather pleasing to the senses, even though, in normal circumstances, it may be distasteful. There are THREE kinds of pleasure/pain: physical, emotional, and financial. For instance, consuming one’s favourite kind of fruit is physically pleasurable. Being hit by a falling coconut - physical pain. Falling in love is an example of psycho-emotional pleasure. Being angry at another - psychological pain. Winning a lottery is an example of financial pleasure. Being robbed - financial pain. There are three origins or CAUSES of pleasure/pain: one’s own body/mind (“adhyātma”, in Sanskrit) other persons/animals (“adhibhūta”, in Sanskrit), and material nature (“adhidaiva”, in Sanskrit). Some “suffer” pain from lack of money. Others “suffer” pain from an abundance of wealth. Some “suffer” pain from lack of food. Others “suffer” pain from an abundance of food. The quality of the “suffering” is different but the NATURE of the “suffering” is the same. OBVIOUSLY, in the previous paragraph, the term “suffer” is used in the stead of “experience”, because that is how the word is used in everyday parlance, in order to draw attention to the fact that pain can be due to an abundance of material opulence as well as a lack of material wealth. GENUINE suffering, on the other hand, is the result of mistaking oneself to be the author of one’s thoughts and actions, and other persons to be fully in control of their own thoughts and deeds. There are five forms (or symptoms) of suffering - all PSYCHOLOGICAL in nature: 1. Guilt/Shame 2. Blame/Bitterness 3. Pride/Arrogance 4. Worry/Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future/Attachment to outcomes (i.e. being inattentive or negligent to the present moment) Suffering can be COMPLETELY transcended by understanding its source and consciously avoiding its manifestations. For example, as a child, your mother may have been particularly violent towards you. As clearly demonstrated in the chapter dealing with free-will, her violence was wholly due to her genetics and societal conditioning, neither of which were under her control. Blaming your mother for her actions leads to psychological anguish, which can only be cured by focusing on the sense of “I am”. In other words, by resorting to one’s essential nature (knowing one’s innermost being to be Pure Consciousness), one is emancipated from all sorrow. The initial feeling of anger towards your mother was a natural reaction to her violence, but the enduring resentment is existential misery. Any physical pain you may have experienced was just that - pain. That pain is not to be discounted, but it has probably faded-away into the distant past. The psychological distress or torment that you are currently experiencing is the ACTUAL suffering, and it can easily be negated by a proper attitude to life. When we contemplate painful past events (or possible future events) those thoughts occur, ostensively, in the present. It is simply not possible to experience the past or future - only the present moment and the thoughts and feelings of the present are experienced. Therefore, it is important to understand and acknowledge that suffering can only occur in the present and can be cured with mindful practices. It is beneficial to also consult a qualified psychotherapist on a regular basis, in order to slowly heal from such mental angst. When a man kicks his pet dog, the dog does NOT spend the remaining years of its life being angry or resentful towards its master. Dogs have very little concept of past, present and future, but live their lives from moment to moment. How unfortunate it is that lower animals are naturally more at peace with their circumstances than we highly-evolved human beings! Even if several of the more highly-evolved species of animals experience some of the five forms of psychological suffering, it does not seem to persist in the same way as it does for human beings. On a rather personal note, even before I fully grasped this teaching (and when I was a Theist), I sent the following message to my second ex-wife, which illustrates my understanding of her actions: “I want to assure you that I have absolutely no bitterness towards you WHATSOEVER for persecuting me. You are simply carrying-out the orders of your perverted, ignorant mind, and I pray that my Master forgives all your wicked thoughts and acts. My own heart is completely free of anger. I pity you and look forward to the day when you finally turn from sin.” When one fully imbibes the understanding that life is completely and utterly preordained, and that no living creature has individual free-will (see Chapter 11), one has no choice BUT to quit blaming, shaming, worrying, being prideful, and being attached to the results of his actions. Deep peace and happiness arises naturally as a consequence. Obviously, the understanding of the non-existence of personal freedom (as well as all the other concepts in this Holy Scripture) are also the result of destiny. The unfortunate fact is, even though unqualified peace is available to everyone, particularly in the current age (due to mass communication), very few human beings are destined for it. To put it very succinctly, true peace/happiness is simply the TRUE self. When the five forms of suffering come to an end (by liberation from the belief in individual agency), only unbroken peace of mind remains. It is completely independent of any temporal circumstances whatsoever. The common belief that happiness originates from sensory or psychological pleasures is an outright falsehood. One can eat only so much chocolate before the pleasure turns to pain. Even a man who fucks hundreds of beautiful women will eventually tire of his sexual conquests, and attempt to seek satisfaction by another means. “Pleasure” is often conflated with “happiness”, as are the terms “pain” and “suffering”. It ought to be noted that there is a rather blurry line between psycho-emotive pain and actual suffering, so any confusion is understandable. Cont...

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I was listening and enjoying until you started talking about the inspiration of Greta who should be in school. Way to make it political. Makes sense, you do live in San Fransico. So annoying.

This guy's first point is to bring up Muslim tragedy. Does he have any compassion for his OWN people? The larger point is that this is what Muslims want to do to Jews. The Jews do not want to kill Muslims, they want PEACE. there is a difference.

Resilience and the Survivor Attitude with a shot glass filled with Humor- I went backpacking when I was 19 years old for 19 months, I did this purposely to give myself one month of meditation for each year of my life. The only reason I thought that was enough time was I had acquired some L-25 which was the MKULTRA drug the CIA had been giving to unsuspecting soldiers and Sandov Lab released or it was stolen from the lab by Individuals who thought it was Important. I reflection and realization the opening of my spiritual journey truly began during that time. I became a Respiratory Therapist and witnessed and experienced many issues along with meeting the most unique people in my life. Following this I became an employee of LADWP and worked there for 30 years with 17 of them in the Owen’s Valley at Control Group Power Plant as a Traveling Relief Operator and was able to operate all the plants from Hawiee to Upper Gorge Power Plant. The individuals I’ve been able to meet and get to know, from the nurses, x-ray tech, physical therapist, Doctors and of course all the patients. Life is truly a Blessing and how one relates to this blessing is the essence of life.

Awesome!

The adolescent in me has the problem with technology that there is no wiggle room…no human to make a deal with…yes…you can’t get away with “anything”…you are always wrong and the machine can’t make a deal…no kabitzing(Yiddish for make a deal have things your way)… not so much being dishonest.

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e microscopic babies, embryothers, phitusisters, and grandadults. Love God with all your heart and soul!

My response to Dr. Kabat-Zinn's question is, turning off my phone 10 minutes a day.

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Really amazing! Thank you for sharing this with us. Also not easy to process online, kudos for you! If IFS is going to be available for everyone, I really want to learn. I did a lot of modality for my own healing. Now I feel IFS can help me find my community as well. I am already applying it daily. Thank you again.💜🕊☮️

I love you entirely!!

What hurts you is what you care of What you care of is what hurts you

philosophy: the love of wisdom, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom is the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgment. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and principles that develops within a specified society or period. E.g. “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.” Unfortunately, in most cases in which this term is used, particularly outside India, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma, which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous! An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. Cf. “dharma”. One of the greatest misconceptions of modern times is the belief that philosophers (and psychologists, especially) are, effectively, the substitutes for the priesthood of old. It is perhaps understandable that this misconception has taken place, because the typical priest/monk/rabbi/mullah seems to be an uneducated buffoon compared with those highly-educated gentlemen who have attained doctorates in philosophy, psychology and psychiatry. However, as mentioned in more than a few places in this book, it is imperative to understand that only an infinitesimal percentage of all those who claim to be spiritual teachers are ACTUAL “brāhmaṇa” (as defined in Chapter 20). Therefore, the wisest philosophers of the present age are still those exceptionally rare members of the Holy Priesthood! At the very moment these words of mine are being typed on my laptop computer, there are probably hundreds of essay papers, as well as books and articles, being composed by professional philosophers and theologians, both within and without academia. None of these papers, and almost none of the papers written in the past, will have any noticeable impact on human society, at least not in the realm of morals and ethics, which is obviously the most vital component of civilization. And, as mentioned in a previous paragraph, since such “lovers-of-wisdom” are almost exclusively adharmic (irreligious and corrupt) it is indeed FORTUITOUS that this is the case. The only (so-called) philosophers who seem to have any perceptible influence in the public arena are “pop” or “armchair” philosophers, such as Mrs. Alisa “Alice” O’Connor (known more popularly by her pen name, Ayn Rand), almost definitely due to the fact that they have published well-liked books and/or promulgate their ideas in the mass media, especially on the World Wide Web.

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My favourite speaker Jay genius ❤l love his speech very much.

watching this interview made me cry. Gisele seems like a very beautiful and amazing woman. i could feel her wisdom and good energy through the screen the entire time she was talking. she truly inspires me.

My therapist that I have for anger management because I do have that problem put me onto this monk and several of his videos and it has really helped me in the last three months so far he’s amazing man and he really makes you take a look at yourself and why you behave the way we do timesI think most people think it’s about religion but it’s about a way of life

Thank you Jon. You are a beautiful teacher of Mindfulness and a authentic Person.

Thank you Jon. May we find peace.

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I love this man

Psychedelics offer a short term relief (few months) for people in crisis, then they return to where they were before treatment. Then as with all addictive mood altering drugs to obtain the same result, increased doses are needed. There is no permanent change/reversal & the danger is that people will give up or self medicate higher doses. Long term client-led counselling (years) & a long period of low stress (years) is the best way to change a trauma mindset to a recovery mindset. Many trauma clients are also in recovery from addictive substances & some are now relapsing because people on YT etc are saying drugs are the solution

Fabulous talk on meditation, Gisele... 5:30am is my favorite time to meditate too.

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WOW!

Very easy to talk mindfulness when you dont have to worry about being able to pay bills,looing good , having people around , etc, she got to a point where rich white people invent problems because they dont have any.

I was born in 1959 and given up for adoption. I was adopted at 6 months old. My mom and Aunt used to talk about me as though I was not there. Mom would say that I am 1/4 Apache and 75% Irish. My Aunt said that I am 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Apache. I have been told that I am dirty and ignorant. And more. You always have such a beautiful message to share. Thank you. I love all people. It's not my job to hate.

Invocation of Greta Thunberg a jarring distraction for those of us who do not share her politics. Or those who do.

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This is profound.

Byron Katie is a narcissist. Glib, callous, domineering, superficial and grandiose. She is Not enlightened.

This practice has truly helped me right now, here on 1st May 2024, it is still relevant, and will most probablt still be relevant and helpful years from now, truly greatful Jon 🙏

Jack this is dedication! We love your work you are a blessing to us all

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Excellent Thnxs

Brilliant!

we are losing such intelligent people

Love you Vishen...first time I look at this meditation. I'm in the same field, do the same as you do for many years. Love the words quantum jumping ...I guess I do this since I'm on earth. Thank you for being here

From 2024 and so on is going to be interesting to watch for the younger generation.

Great interview Gisele ❤ Thank you 🙏

I’ve watched videos of this meeting a lot recently. Jon kabat-zinn looks so cool to me wearing all black. The most beautiful flower arrangement I have seen beside him. But it’s not just him personally, it’s the archetype of the person seated in meditation, and the moment of human potential, and power.( benevolent power) To me this is so very moving.

I once liked her approach when I was very unaware of what trauma is or my own trauma. Now I‘m more for truly and radically accepting what is and that includes my thoughts and feelings. Do not get me wrong - I looked very deeply into what I think, do and feel and why. If it hurt, it did hurt - that‘s real AND it is okay. Exactly as it is. Suffering is a reality. No more need to gaslight myself out of my own experience, no need to change it - just being at peace with it.

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Thank you Lyla, I love you, keep speaking truth, please

Very helpful. Thank you for this.