--- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A lot of good points have been made about ways of handling suffering 
> eg Marek's concerning putting the attention away from suffering, on 
> attention itself - hence manage to transcend suffering; or by 
> embracing suffering/demons eg Rory or Jim. I can see the wisdom in 
> all this. Am also impressed with some of the reported experiences.
> 
> Raging against the clouds will not make the sun shine back any 
> sooner. In the end we seem to have to do the rope trick in reverse - 
> pretend the snake is just a rope.

Or pretend that the rope is really a snarling snake.


> Become more immune to it at any 
> rate. For instance raging anger needs to subside into indifference or 
> equanimity, in order for us to transcend duality.

Go deep into the tunnel of anger and sadness and the light at the end
of it is not indifference.



> This is where a 
> leap of faith is required, at least before enlightenment - that this 
> is not just wishful thinking, that goodness can and will overcome 
> evil in the end.

The premise in all of this is that suffering is the natural state, the
core of it all.

Maybe evil has only temporarily overtaken goodness -- the core.
 
> However my focus was on the dynamics of Unity giving RISE to creation 
> as discussed in recent webcast conferences - the rope/snake comment 
> by MMY, the risposte by Hagelin concerning different perspectives of 
> his Unity equations. And the inherent "covering" of ignorance and 
> forgetfulness MMY noted between silence and dynamism.
> 
> So on the one hand we have the view of creation arising from the 
> precise, sequential unfoldment of the Laws of Nature reputedly 
> working "without problems" - excuse me, what about suffering, was my 
> question. Where is the unifiedfield chart connecting physics with 
> moral philosophy, karma etc? And what evidence is there in nature of 
> moral values anyway? 

Maybe you / we see suffering everywhere because we are in a localized
"hell" and the vaster realm of things is more towards heaven -- the
happiness/suffering ration approaching larger numbers


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