The End of All Suffering

And I thought it was all over. Is it ever finished?

There I am, sobbing on my green couch this morning like a 5 year old, after reading these words from Byron Katie:

"Life on the other side of inquiry is so simple and obvious that it can't be imagined. Everything is seen to be at its best, just the way it is. Hope and faith aren't needed in this place. Earth turned out to be the heaven I was longing for. This is the unimaginable life that I live, that we all live."

A.H. Almaas claims - in his book Unfolding Now - that suffering can finish and with it personality is transformed. All those quirky things that you think make up "you"…

GONE.

This is the "unimaginable" to me.

With my recent break-up, it's like pulling the scab off an old wound and deliberatly poking into it with a hot prong. I thought after my marriage break-up - after a year of almost daily tears, after hours of work-on-self and reading, being mentored and meditating - I thought I am healed.

And here I am again, sobbing from a pain of loss.

Am I ever healed?

And yet, if I am honest, I can understand how I submerged levels of pain under blankets of pseudo-pleasure. How I effectively suppressed enquiry at it's most delicate transition. The signs were all there - the acting out, the resumption of occasional drinking, the wars and tribulations with personalities, the crisises in focus and direction.

Our work is a call to a quest of inquiry that leads to our collective heaven.

Heaven, in FM's words, was the Conscious Constructive Control of the Individual. The remark that FM once made in teaching resonsates with me as his being his most spiritual, his most mysterious.

He remarked to a student:

"When the time comes that you can trust your feeling, you won't want to use it."

This conjures up a world within a world, a heaven within earth. A place where personality no longer rules. The breathtaking expanse of our work is stunning…

Your head/spinal complex is the spiritual geiger counter for radioactive thinking.

And yet, it still needs it's own Cognitive framework.

FM got us started, as have so many other teachers throughout the times. You have a responsibility to assemble your own unique path, then share that path with others so they they might do the same.

This is my motivation is creating ThinkingBody Online - to inspire, inform and suggest ways that you can break out of the prision of "being right" around your work, and instead express the true heaven you wish to offer others.

As an opening, I have written a short essay describing my own 37 year journey in assembling all the pieces of ThinkingBody. Get the download here…

ThinkingBody Online

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