Isn't it funny? We need suffering to be able to get rid of it. Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
-----Original Message----- From: roomsearching <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:46:01 To: <[email protected]> Cc: Advaita<[email protected]> Subject: Re: Why suddenly one chooses to do the I am sense watching Why suddenly one chooses to do the "I am" sense watching ? It is not sudden. It happens after a lot of suffering. A search for truth finally starts. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I think one has to be deluded a 'million' times by entertaining thoughts in > order to suddenly understand this always leads to delusion. I had to try all > the shit before I convinced my mind that every field of thought leads to > delusion. Nobody was able to convince me until I tried all the shit myself. > After that once I've really tried the I am sense watching and I saw that is > the only path which produces 'results', it was all finished. > What I want to emphasise here is the importance of learning by one's own > experience, the importance of suffering as the thing which tells you where > not to go, the importance of getting burnt after touching fire, a million > times, until you realize you won't touch it again. > The imprtance of other people advice (even guru's advice) is limited in > comparison to one's own try-fail-try- succeed exercise. > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone >
