First we have to spend a long time of our life experiencing pleasure and pain.
We have to get our basics of life first to see any pattern to it. You cannot do this meditation when you are 10 years old. You need to have a lot of life experience. With pain and pleasure, with suffering, our personality develops. First, the ego has to form. The awareness has to develop. A child has no awareness. And it does not question anything. Children are in ignorance. We grow up with the simple worldview of I and this world.There is a clear distinction between I and the world. This seperation clearly creates suffering - duality. Finally the world view changes and we realize that everything is one. There is no world. There is only me. There are no others. On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:08 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't it funny? We need suffering to be able to get rid of it. > > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone > ------------------------------ > *From: * roomsearching <[email protected]> > *Date: *Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:46:01 +0100 > *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 >> > >
