>>40579575The torture, my friend,
is in your own mind.
Who is the torturer, and who is the tortured?
They are one in the same.
You suffer this life,
but is it the life itself that you suffer?
Because, I live to, in this same world,
but I'm not suffering it,
because my relationship to my mind has been and challenged by my consistent effort to do so.
The next time you are experiencing suffering,
slow down, and identify the true source of it.
The suffering, is not in the world.
The suffering, is in the sufferer.
Disidentify with the sufferer,
and the suffering goes, aswell.
This might sound arcane, let me bring it to earth.
If you are saying to yourself "Fuck, I'm having a bad day, my life is shit".
Is that really true?
The day just is the day.
The life just is the life.
How much of the sensation of badness,
is actually just coming from your willed perspective on it?
I'll give you a clear example.
There are two prison cells, identical in shape.
In the left one, the man sits and considers himself to be in hell.
In the right one, the man sits and considers himself to be in heaven.
Which one is true?
Neither is true.
The cell is simply the cell.
Your perspective on what that cell means to you, shapes your experiencing of it.
Try to let go of your filtering of your experiencing, when you can identity the filtering, then see how the experience is -on its own -when left alone -when you're NOT filtering it. Generally, life is fucking good.
There are occasional moments of ACTUAL struggle, like, you might be throwing up because you ate some rotten noodles?
How often is what you are experiencing genuinely negative though? Not often.
I can promise you that, because I've identified it in myself. I've identified that I am PRONE to filtering my perceptions of reality into something negative, when actually, mostly my life is rather simple.
How often have U been stuck in some miserable place in your head, but then your pet/child takes your attention; & U 4get your misery? B wise.
