Ending Suffering Forever (if it's possible)

[SOUL]

On 11/26/2017 at 0:14 PM, Ascend said:

Life is about duality, contrast, polarity. There is both joy/suffering. Good and bad. The contrast is for our benefit. It is there to help you choose what you prefer, and use the context to experience more of your preference.

This is a mistaken perception formed in the mind, there really isn't any duality, there is variation yes, but it's not a duality.

Pleasure is pleasure and is known for it's  own characteristics, it's not recognized because it is the opposite of pain which has it's own characteristics. Both of these can be simultaneously experienced together, to prove this point we can see it in how many people push themselves to train their bodies or in some people's sexual proclivities.

So joy and misery aren't opposites countering a two sided scale, they are individual expressions that can be experienced by themselves or even together. We can even experience another indifferent or placid state which isn't like those others two that has it's characteristics of it's own and can simultaneously exist with those others.

Ceasing to feed the mind's mistaken perception of duality isn't an act of resisting or pushing back against it which actually feeds the notion by creating an opposite to it. What dissolves the mind's perception is awakening to the diversity of infinite variation and eventually the old perception falls away like a habit or behavior.

I know what happened in your mind, it likely spoke up and said 'but wait, the opposite of infinite is finite' to defend it's perception, it's paradigm of belief. Although, the actual nature of those two isn't in opposition to each other or a duality or polarity since all the bits of finite comprise the infinite, finite is part of the infinite, not apart from it.

Awaken the consciousness by being aware of a perception that transcends the erroneous one in the mind.