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2nd November 2019 03:32
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Re: The Higher Self and transcendent experience, including OBEs
Hi Ernie,
I don't have an interest myself (particularly in recent years) in saying things about spirituality that aren't based on my own experience(s), or extrapolated from that experience as some kind of an explanation of it. So, then, based on my experience (in the real world), the only way to become free of any particular form or kind of suffering is through joy and acceptance of it. In other words, the suffering essentially dissolves (or dissolves within several minutes) even as I'm experiencing it. Or else, I'm certainly not free of that particular area of suffering yet.
It would seem to me, then, that the only way to get free of this "vale of suffering" would be, as I say, through being able to maintain joy and positive mood even in the midst of all suffering. No sour grapes about it. I don't see how one could do that with the point of view that suffering is too terrible to re-experience it. Rather, the point of view should be, surely, that one can re-experience it and not be defeated or wounded by it at all, but one no longer needs to do so, because there are other things to do, or not-do.
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2nd November 2019 20:43
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