--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "claudiouk" <claudiouk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > The really problematic dimension of suffering is not personal (if > > one > > > can indeed become "detached" from internal desire or aversion) - > it > > > is interpersonal. Try being detatched whilst your loved ones are > > > being tortured... > > > > > > > Of course, in the TM sense, lack of suffering is due to witnessing. > > Anger, horror, terror, unhappiness, etc., can be expected within a > > person watching another, especially a loved one, being tortured. > That > > doesn't preclude witnessing in the TM sense, however. > > > > It's an interesting paradox: one can suffer and yet not be > suffering. > > But the referent of "one" changes. The self is suffering, > while the Self is not.
Well yeah, but just because we see beauty in the dead dog's shiny teeth doesn't mean we go out of our way to admire them if there is something else *better*, relatively speaking, to look at. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
