Comments on: A Path of Joy, A Path of Suffering

By: htl

htl — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:55:15 +0000

The truth is as easy as this – when we stop denying them, the meaning of garbage disappears! Not that there is an acceptance of the garbage but rather the definition of garbage totally poof! from the mind. Why? Bcos what is “denied” becomes a meaning of “garbage”. Observe the garbage we have at home. They are the stuff we denied for any more meaning or purpose in our space and thus are labelled as ‘garbage’.

In a very strange twist of event, when the pain is look head on, it disappears! But when we deny its existence by resisting it, we make it real and thus haunt us. That’s the truth of life. Check it out for yourself next time when u have an itch – try observing the itch without identifying with it – in the beginning it may seems impossible but with merely a plain observer status, u will get what i mean when u observe the process as it is.

“Pain is a meaning deny put on it.”

By: Alina Grace

Alina Grace — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:31:20 +0000

It is never easy to really look into one’s ‘garbage’ and admit that one’s life is full of ‘garbage’. It indeed takes a lot of courage to face one’s own demons but the ultimate achievement is to face it head on…acknowledge it and then be able to move on because this ‘garbage’ is going to continue to haunt oneself until the end of time.

Needless to say, it is always easier said than done. Who wants to feel pain? Who wants to face the ‘real’ truth? Because…everyone knows the ‘truth’ hurts.

Thank you for sharing and keeping people like me in perspective. :)

By: GG

GG — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:24:50 +0000

Oh create, create.. but create moments of clarity, so that the undoing can be done, the garbage can be cleared.

It is what we run away from the most, where we’d need to look into the most; yet no matter how far one runs, the garbage follows closely, until one sees that the garbage cannot be released until one realises that the garbage has a chain tied around one’s neck!!

So let’s rejoice in our own willingless to clear our garbage, and leave others’ garbage to their own. Let our ‘feel good’ be from the space of true joy, true freedom; instead of one of a facade.

By: htl

htl — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:42:12 +0000

This entry came to me when I questioned the rational behind choosing a joyful journey instead of pain, as shared by new age school of thoughts, and how I observe people moving away from taking their own inner responsibility “garbage” and instead does lots of “feel good” work that not only compound their garbage but also adding new stuff to it. Thus the journey of J and B is wonderful as it is about abandoning or undoing instead of creation which interestingly, is what modern day spirituality is talking about. Have we missed the mark? Not that the path advocated by B or J is far away from joy but rather there is much joy arriving from clearing the stuff of what we have unconsciously created in our past. Thus I will define in my own way that the path of joy is undoing and the path of pain is in creation. Both are in opposite polarity. Until the undoing is seen, true manifestation is impossible. Otherwise it is creating more suffering!

By: GG

GG — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:58:49 +0000

Again, a beautiful piece. This clears a lot of doubt for anyone who is on the journey… :)