http://spiritualportal.net/index.php/topic,8947.msg44373.html#msg44373At any rate I’m proposing an idea here and anyone listening may want to respond, and your responses are welcome. That idea is that given the many experiences many of us have had, perhaps 🤔 there is an element of spirituality transforming our lives and preparing us for enlightenment over time. Maybe a lot of small epiphanies can lead to a higher consciousness that eventually we can call enlightenment?
I am also learning that anytime I find myself emotionally reactive to something- anything, and suffer from it... it is purely because my Ego demands my lease on life be the correct one. Whether I am upset someone is behaving in a disagreeable manner, I'm not getting the attention I deserve from the workplace, I find so and so to be annoying... All these little, "things" are nothing but silly demands of the Ego which seems quite childish in nature.
How so? Because like a child, it does not see the greater picture.
But, there is something within that eventually takes the adversity and all the suffering as an opportunity. It can be hard, but the reason is likely because we no longer wish to be a slave of circumstance. We sometimes forget, and yet, every little effort to alleviate our own suffering is good for all.
Swami Vidyadhishananda has made a comment once about suffering... And I didn't fully understand it at the time. He said suffering is unique. We can never know the full extent of anothers suffering.
Surely we can recognize the ignorance and suffering in others? There are similar qualities. And surely a Master recognizes the signs of ignorance and suffering.
But it would appear a trick if we are so convinced in thinking we understand the full extent of someone elses suffering. We have been deluded once more- and Life will once again humble us in a way that reveals we have been mislead by the notions of our Ego.
