Review Ending unnecessary Suffering by Peter Ralston

[Leo Gura]

You don't need to think it, you will suffer enormously just from being alive.

[Mellowmarsh]

Your birth was your death sentence.

 

[Breakingthewall]

21 hours ago, OBEler said:

@Breakingthewall "If you are open to the actual reality that is, every moment feels alive and full, there are no regrets because you act straight by default, relationship are clean without friction because freedom and truth are natural for you, and lie and submission are impossible, and death is seen as the open heart of reality where you are going to dissolve to be one with it. "

So how does that look like on a mundane day?

21 hours ago, OBEler said:

 

Alive and direct, open, full and beautiful, fluid, in comparison with a mental state of lack where you are pointing to yourself full time what is lack, what shouldn't happen, how should be everything.

If you are closed to your nature it's inevitable doing it because the mind needs a ground because it's isolated, disconnected, then it creates that ground pointing all time what is lack. It's an strategy to get balanced. 

Spirituality will tell you: stop doing it, it's a mistake, ego, reality is perfect, accept it. That's impossible. The self needs to be open to it's source to stop it,  if not it will do this activity because it needs it. 

[Joseph Maynor]

19 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

I think that usually people get interested in spirituality because they suffer, they can't adapt, they can't find their place in the world, or a tragedy has befallen them that they can't cope with, so they turn to spirituality.

The problem is that spirituality is a mess and is explained terribly. Current spirituality is a kind of dissociative anesthetic in which the person identifies with something larger, consciousness, which doesn't suffer but rather suffering happens within it, parallel to Tolle's ideas that tell you that suffering over the past or the future is a mistake because right now there is no problem.

So you can escape the mental error that is the ego simply by becoming aware of it. This is false, it doesn't work. It's a scam.

All I can say is I don't suffer very much after doing spirituality for 10 plus years.

[OBEler]

19 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

So you can escape the mental error that is the ego simply by becoming aware of it. This is false, it doesn't work. It's a scam.

So by becoming aware of it is not enough. Is it even possible? Do you see spirituality as a solution to reducing suffering as not working?

[Breakingthewall]

1 hour ago, OBEler said:

So by becoming aware of it is not enough. Is it even possible? Do you see spirituality as a solution to reducing suffering as not working?

I think that the point is not being aware of the ego, but open yourself to the absolute fact of being, then the ego recalibrates itself and the suffering decreases greatly. 

Neurosis happens when your only ground is the psyche itself. Then it creates constantly a mental ground to maintain balance, and this constant flow is anxiety by default. 

Being open to the unlimited is not a ground, its being sustained by the fact of being. It could sounds simple but it isn't because psyche by default is oriented to be grounded by the tribe, collective, religion. By meaning and the idea of something bigger. Humans are hive being, then when the hive is not anymore a solid structure the psyche builds the structure. If its suffering, that's better than nothing. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Breakingthewall