Prashant Tripathi: Awakening begins with suffering

Awakening

begins

with

suffering

SHRI PRASHANT

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The BuddhaSays

‘World is full of suffering’

Which is called, ‘The Dukkha principle’

Because most of us do not even know that

we are suffering, the Buddha has to start

by saying that look at yourself,

You are suffering

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The 3 distinct states of consciousness

Stone The lowest state

SufferingAn indication that you are

waking up.

The highest stage

The stage of the awakened human being, intelligent human being. He again

does not suffer.





I don’t think I am suffering

“I am alright. I come to the college. I spend life

like everybody else does.

Where is suffering in all this?”

??

?





But we are not translating it into recognized suffering,

because our senses have become dysfunctional, paralyzed and there

are repeated assaults on them.

There is a great deal of pain





You know,

That if somebody takes your handand

repeatedly hits it with a weapon,say something blunt, you will feel pain initially,

but after sometime your hand will go so numb

that even if somebody is beating it continuously again and again, you will not feel anything.

And it becomes

a way of life with you.

You do not feel that you are

suffering.





Only the intelligent ones, the sensitive ones,

they recognize this suffering.

They come in contact with that

suffering.





So, Kabir says

सुखिया सब संसार है, िावै औरसोव|ै

दखुिया दास कबीर है, जागै औररोवै ||





The entire world is not experiencing any suffering, just consuming and sleeping.

But Kabir has woken up to that suffering

because he is awakened, hence is he crying.

Meaning





Only the awakened ones cry, the stone does not cry.

The stone cannot cry.

Living in a constant torture has become a

way of life with us.





Confusion

How do we suffer?

These are the signs of suffering:

Boredom





We are restless

We cannot sit silently

Our thoughts keep wanderingand that’s happening even right now.

This is suffering and nothing else.





Ambition is suffering

because

Ambition is the sure sign of discomfort from the present

moment.





Don’t you see an obsession with result is suffering?

Don’t you see an inability of yourself to stay alone is suffering?





I may not know that I have

cancer but cancer will keep on

doing what it does.

It’s the same with suffering





Why must we give it such a

central position in life?

Emotion





We may not give that value to thought, even

understanding,

but to emotions we give a lot of value.

The moment we see tears, we are moved.





Being

emotional is considered as a sign

of being authentic, real.

And all this happens without the

understanding of

what this thing called emotion is.





Thought is the activity of the mind.

What is thought?





Thought has aroused due to an external influence.

When you see something then arises the thought.





Thoughts feed on:

memories,

which feed on brain.

This same thought when it intensifies and starts

having an effect on the body as well, that is what

you call is emotion.





Emotion is nothing but the effect of the

thought on the body.

Emotion is thought.





No thought is really your thought.

Understanding can be yours,

thought can’t be.





And whosoever is implanting that

thought in your mind is surely

becoming your master,

hence he will be

able to exploit you.





So, whosoever is emotional and whosoever lives in that

borrowed thought is bound to become a slave.





Our beliefsOur religionOur thoughts about family and careerOur nationalism

What ‘forms’ do these thoughts take?

All these have been handed to us from outside, and hence all of these result in our

exploitation.





Someone comes…

and gives a thought to you that you are brilliant.

Your mind internalizes that statement.

And now you are prone to exploitation because that person has become your master.

Your brilliance resides in his hands, he has given you your

self–esteem.

So, you can become a slave because he can also take

your sense of brilliance away.





That is why most of you are so afraid of public speaking.

Because your sense of yourself comes from outside, so

you are afraid that they will take it back.

Your thought that ‘I am somebody’ has been given to you by others,

it is not the product of your understanding, others have just handed over it to you.

So you are all the time afraid that these same people

who call me brilliant, can also call me a ‘nobody’, a mean

fellow, a worthless fellow.





Suffering,

but you won’t call it suffering.





Thoughts, emotions

they are all the means of the

external

to control you

to exploit you





All your thoughts are about yourselves, look into them.

From where they come?

They come from outside.





Your name, your religion, your self-esteem, your sense of who you are,

All your identities, they all come from outside.

And because the outside has given them, the outside can take it back.

You are afraid all the time and you become a slave of the

outside.





Question:

If anyone is trying to hurt me,

malign my image and then he hits me,

and I don’t bother him, he may think that I am

scared.

How I should act in this situation?





There are forces out there that want to harm us, hurt us.

Firstly, what do I do with myself?

Secondly, what do I do with them?

Firstly recognize that others can take away from

you what others have given you

Others have the power to take away which is not central

and essential

When you say somebody hurt me, that means you allowed that person to hurt you.





An external force is able to hurtyou because you had an

expectation.

It is not possible to get hurt

without expectation.





Secondly, Just avoid. You don’t start feeling hurt, you don’t start

crying.It is fun if you can just

watch it.




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