I'm sorry, but I think this is a very clumsy time to be trying to communicate the suffering of Elon Musk, who is directly causing tremendous and palpable real everyday SUFFERING.
"The fundamental tenet of the great Faiths insists that suffering is an inescapable truth, inherent to life as we know it. For millennia, a principal purpose of virtually all spiritual faiths and practices has been to offer various prescriptions for accommodating, mitigating, utilizing, or otherwise sublimating said suffering in our lives – allegedly in the service of making us stronger, whole people. Why must suffering be a fundamental element of our experience? Universal Law? Really?? Why should we accept the axiom that the path to wisdom must route through a broken heart? Comparable to the revolutionary epiphany from Copernicus’ examination of Ptolemy’s epicycles, centuries of gyrations around suffering might reveal themselves to be only rationalizations once a superior alternative way of BEING becomes apparent?
Healing on any level by any discipline uplifts the planet of course. All of us suffer, but most of us fail to reach the healing and wisdom that the “elite sufferers” diligently ‘achieve’. For how much longer will the now wisened “elite sufferers” fuel delusion by insisting that the scars on our heart can be repurposed as spiritual merit badges? Despite the invaluable healing, this well intended growth also perpetuates the mythical maxim that suffering is inescapable. Considering the conspicuous confluence of crises in this 21st c., humanity desperately needs to evolve BEYOND cycles of suffering and on to currents of Love. Isn’t it past time we traded up to a more wholesome integrated construct?"
I'm sorry, but I think this is a very clumsy time to be trying to communicate the suffering of Elon Musk, who is directly causing tremendous and palpable real everyday SUFFERING.
Such wisdom from you today Soren! Thank you for your reminding messages of love, tolerance, compassion, forgiveness, and hope.
Thank you again! I save these.
"The fundamental tenet of the great Faiths insists that suffering is an inescapable truth, inherent to life as we know it. For millennia, a principal purpose of virtually all spiritual faiths and practices has been to offer various prescriptions for accommodating, mitigating, utilizing, or otherwise sublimating said suffering in our lives – allegedly in the service of making us stronger, whole people. Why must suffering be a fundamental element of our experience? Universal Law? Really?? Why should we accept the axiom that the path to wisdom must route through a broken heart? Comparable to the revolutionary epiphany from Copernicus’ examination of Ptolemy’s epicycles, centuries of gyrations around suffering might reveal themselves to be only rationalizations once a superior alternative way of BEING becomes apparent?
Healing on any level by any discipline uplifts the planet of course. All of us suffer, but most of us fail to reach the healing and wisdom that the “elite sufferers” diligently ‘achieve’. For how much longer will the now wisened “elite sufferers” fuel delusion by insisting that the scars on our heart can be repurposed as spiritual merit badges? Despite the invaluable healing, this well intended growth also perpetuates the mythical maxim that suffering is inescapable. Considering the conspicuous confluence of crises in this 21st c., humanity desperately needs to evolve BEYOND cycles of suffering and on to currents of Love. Isn’t it past time we traded up to a more wholesome integrated construct?"
https://bohobeau.net/2023/07/29/transition/
Another way of saying what Ram Dass did: Out of suffering comes growth. Thank you., Soren.