it doesn't help to hear that there is no such thing as suffering, or that it is optional, only a product of our attachments. Of course this all may well be true - yet our grief, our sorrow, our loneliness, tell us otherwise. The appearance of suffering in the moment of its belief is the reality of that moment. Even in the absence of our belief it is still felt keenly. Is there a path to be free from suffering? I don't know. Perhaps a better question would be - is it necessary to be free? If we grieve, it is not right to embrace the sorrow felt for what is lost? Is the ache of loneliness not a call to seek connection? My own sense of this is that even my denial of such experiences belong to the moment of its arrival and there is nothing more to do on my part than acknowledge its appearance. And it's so with each expression of sorrow, pain, and loneliness - my suffering honored simply because it's present, felt, an has no edge offered in its passing, it is here for whatever length of its appearance. It's this edge-less nature of all experiences that allows us to be truly free, without avoidance a single thing. Everything belongs for the time that it is here. When we see that there is no edge to what the moment holds, indeed that there are no lines between the moment and ourselves - than there only is belonging. Ever.
Peace,
Eric
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