Pain
Pain
Pay attention to yourselves and try passing before your mind’s eye a series of characters, friends and acquaintances, men and women who for better or worse are in some way tied to you. Visualize them. Feel the distance that separates you from every one of them. Feel the pain of those people – recognize it as your own, as inside yourself, and you’ll realize that it is resolved. It disappears instantly in the moment in which you’ve recognized it as your own and have circumscribed it.
In effect, the others are useful to make us enter into that part of our being where our roots lie, the very cause of everything that happens in the world. If we are more careful, we perceive that the pain of the world, of the others, arrives only apparently from the outside – it’s our pain and is caused within us ( originates in us). The suffering of the world is your own suffering distributed over the others -over a myriad of people, for your lack of ability to manage it. We have to train ourselves to live with something that is apparently outside of us and not be afraid to face its real cause,to recognize that it is in us – then we can transform the impossible.
The fact is that pain is difficult to perceive. Not only do we not feel it any more – it is virtually painless – but it’s become a part of us; and without realizing it we have even come to love it. And yet there is no more advanced technology than that which, through management and the elimination of pain, makes us the solution to everything.
Every solution comes through the hunt for pain. The more you look for it consciously, the more it turns out to be false and dissolves. Pain exists to warn you of your own distraction ( lack of attention), the distance created between you and yourself. If you reclaim yourself, pain vanishes. Do an experiment. Visualize someone. Listen, take on his pain. If you contain it, if you circumscribe it, you’ll bring him solutions and you’ll see that that person takes on the right attitude, the right position , without having to intervene. When we think that pain is the effect of a problem, and that it’s the others to create it, it is in reality the pain in us that is not managed and has taken over.
Observe people. Listen to the discussions they have. Men and women are imprisoned in tiny niches, and live in tunnels bound by the same two or three problems that assail them constantly their whole lives. Who can resolve this ocean – these infinite afflictions and sufferings? Who can sustain this vision without feeling crushed by it? And yet, if we put together in one container all the pain in the world, we’d discover that they correspond to one single grimace in our being, like a shadow that passes over the face of a god generating thousands of years of darkness on the earth.
In the morning, before entering into the world’s confusion, we can visualize the signs of pain that arrive from an infinite number of people. If we avoid falling into the trap of accusing the others of our problems, of blowing them up and perpetuating them we can take them upon ourselves, swallow the suffering of others, friends, strangers and enemies. Once we realize that that pain is the cause of all the suffering in the world, the solution is to free oneself. This means listening to it – taking it upon yourself and winning it. It is the return to the integrity of being that projects a world free from every problem and difficulty.
It means freedom from identification with the world. The joy of realizing that the pain does not exist, that what we call reality is none other than a theatrical representation, a film set. It means recognizing in oneself the cause of all and everything. Worrying is a process of self-sabotage – just like every form of identification. Being identified means becoming identical to something that is only our projection. Something that we ourselves have created. When the creator forgets himself he absurdly becomes victim of his own creation . This identification is the only emotion that humanity knows. Without the continuous pain it generate in us we would go into withdrawl – we wouldn’t know how to live. So we want to be identified, we want to believe in the world around us and become one the projected images on the screen and become victims of the game we ourselves have created. You don’t know the ecstasy of eliminating everything that worries and scares us, and the joy that comes from the elimination of all that causes pain in the world. We look outside of ourselves for something that satisfies us, we are always on the lookout for anything that can give us a minute of happiness, but nothing can equal the ecstasy of being free. And yet , for who is unprepared, this freedom from identification is more painful than the pain itself. Manipulated, at the mercy of events, we believe that identification with the world is the life without which we would suffocate. For this , the conquest of freedom cannot happen accidentally, but only from inside – can only be conquered intentionally.
Real doing is acting from the inside and not reacting to what happens outside. Our reaction is the very cause of what we are reacting to. Free from identification, the world becomes a masterpiece, a portable paradise, a pleasing entertainment. You can do everything, but without identifying – without believing in it. You can act anger, jealousy, and passion, but you have to have the abilities of a man who has mastered himself, who controls his emotions and his reactions. A man who has eliminated every death inside of himself. In reality, everyone believes to be living well. If you notice, everything is fine with everyone, even it’s going badly. Everyone is busy eking out a life for himself, in spite of the death and unconsciousness he bears. Everyone feels free already and doesn’t even suspect to live an inner prison the size of a postage stamp. If only we could become aware of the pain we carry inside and recognize our condition of hostage, we would already be free. The Dreamer’s job is to attack you relentlessly, until you, the person, the personality, either disappears or begins to understand. His continuous pressure and pushing to guide you towards freedom is taken as a threat. Identification is so strong that the mask has become irremovable, and the task of changing it unthinkable. We should get up in the morning and go into the world shining with a light so strong that it will illuminate all those we meet, all that we touch, instilling in them the same splendor.
People invent a faith, political beliefs, hobbies and passions – external games to survive; to escape and to never ask oneself the crucial questions about the meaning of life. And what the meaning is of everything they do. The Dreamer has eliminated all that which assails a man leading an ordinary life, He has avoided your having to fight with everyday problems. He has taken you out from under the influence of a collective vision and the hypnotic tale of an immense world, full of hidden dangers that rule over a man who is at their mercy, subject to the laws of accidentality: a being with his tail between his legs, afraid, reduced to the size of an ant. The Dreamer had given you back the dignity of a divinity. The world exists because you do. It’s you who creates with every blink of your eye, and without you would disappear.
You don’t deserve all this. It’s a vision that you received on loan and that you haven’t conquered yet. No external intervention can take a man out of his prison, and not even the words of the Dreamer can save you from your mortal destiny, the river of negative emotions, of destructive thoughts and the thousands of deaths that fill the life of ordinary men every day. Victims of stupidity, prey of a world that you yourself have created. You are bothered, but sometimes accept with rebellion and rancor the action of the Dreamer – your constant dedication to creating obstacles to this Work. The activities and the roles that He has given you have become your god, and you use these ghosts to continue to hide, without any aspiration to transcend, to step on this and go beyond. What you don’t understand is that His words will explain life and its laws and its tools for healing. In the conditions of an ordinary life only sickness, accidents, the outbreak of war or a bankruptcy can put a stop to this obtuseness - And when every other method proves ineffective, in the chronic and most grave cases of identification, only death can intervene and resolve.
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