As I study more, there are so many eureka moments! Incredible learning.
Why do people suffer? The
reasons.
We feel we have made a mistake.
We shall not do it again. But we forget and make the same mistakes again and
again.
Conclusion: memory does not teach
us.
Stored experiences from many
lives are tendencies that develop within us and THESE form our lessons for
growth. Tendencies more of suffering but also good times.
If we notice the nature of each
individual around us, their thought processes, what triggers them, what they
can tolerate (or not), we will find that karma from many lives really dictate
our lives.
We may therefore be born with
these tendencies: caring or cruel, considerate or selfish, gentle or aggressive
etc.
It is just the way it is and
therefore, no blame is to be heaped.
We are therefore, just different,
working with different karmic cycles.
The only way we can find harmony
and peace for working out our karma is if we learn to live peacefully and with
understanding with one another, accept each other as different in some ways and
similar in others. And more important. Live and let live with understanding
that we are all in the same boat, except some may be in a row boat, some in a
sail boat and some in a luxury liner.
Practice only positive feelings where people are concerned. Conflicts give rise to more undesirable karma. Offer love. Offer peace. Don’t throw pebbles in the flowing water to disturb its flow. Counteract negative feelings and action with positive ones.
This superimposition of the negative
with the positive will, in time, remove suffering.
So yes, suffering IS self-inflicted
and can be removed only by each of us. Don’t worry about opinions. They don’t
matter. Only YOU know who you are and how you can alleviate your own suffering.
Surekha Kothari
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