This is somewhat similar to myunderstandingabout "attached detachment". Every pain has a context which is connected to many other contexts. Only the one experiencing these contexts in totality can claim to have truly understood THE pain. Without it, Im afraid genuine suffering is impossible.Unless of course, you are one of those who enjoy the feeling of suffering or simply believe that listening to pain and then indulging in some imagination is experiencing it.
I really do not claim to suffer at all from the pain of others. I perhaps also do not experience suffering from my own pain (especially a sad event). In the rarest of cases my suffering from the pain only emerged when I could have shown more compassion (not subtle but by "compaction"), not when the other showed none towards me. For example; when I heard for teh first time Sister Lucy's story of why she started Maher, I immediately thought that it was more from the suffering she experienced from not showing timely "compaction" (subtle wouldn't have mattered). In her determination not to let herself down ever again, she not only greatly mitigated her own suffering but assuaged the pain as well as suffering of thousands of others. That is why I think suffering is even more powerful than pain and if it leads to a call for action, the "compassion + compaction" is highly likely to lead to transformation. But, such a suffering must come naturally. One cannot force it onto oneself.
Also, as I continue to experience life I have started to believe that every PAIN is in fact created for a reason. It is pointless for the MORTALme to try and decode it, so the best way is to accept it. If this acceptance is followed up by COMPACTION I stay put, or else I simply let others take the stage.
On Jan 15, 2021 Vineeth Iyer wrote :
I really do not claim to suffer at all from the pain of others. I perhaps also do not experience suffering from my own pain (especially a sad event). In the rarest of cases my suffering from the pain only emerged when I could have shown more compassion (not subtle but by "compaction"), not when the other showed none towards me. For example; when I heard for teh first time Sister Lucy's story of why she started Maher, I immediately thought that it was more from the suffering she experienced from not showing timely "compaction" (subtle wouldn't have mattered). In her determination not to let herself down ever again, she not only greatly mitigated her own suffering but assuaged the pain as well as suffering of thousands of others. That is why I think suffering is even more powerful than pain and if it leads to a call for action, the "compassion + compaction" is highly likely to lead to transformation. But, such a suffering must come naturally. One cannot force it onto oneself.
Also, as I continue to experience life I have started to believe that every PAIN is in fact created for a reason. It is pointless for the MORTALme to try and decode it, so the best way is to accept it. If this acceptance is followed up by COMPACTION I stay put, or else I simply let others take the stage.