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Ultimate root of pain
The conflict in
attachments is the ultimate root of pain
Pain as tension in the
boat
Two ways to view pain
The conflict in
attachments is the ultimate root of pain
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Pain is the experience of not
letting go of an attachment as the creation to which we are attached
changes in response to what the creator desires to create. You, the
creator, remain attached to what was and do not let go of the
creation as it was. Your desire is not the cause of your pain. With
a
creativity perspective, the conflict between your attachments
and what you desire is the cause. We hold the past for whatever
reason and project it into the future when we have to let go of the
past to allow the future to unfold in an unfettered way.
Pain as
tension in the boat (Top)
To help understanding this issue,
it is useful to look at an analogy for pain where you have a boat on
the river. In discussing the
creative process it was said the there is a flow the energy of
the universe that flows into and out of your life and experiences
and/or things must pass out of your life to be recycled for the next
experience. The easiest way to see the association of pain and
attachment is to see a row boat (you) in a river (the flow of life)
and the boat is tied to a pier or dock (the creation you now
experience) by a single rope (your attachment).
Suppose you tie your row boat to the pier or to the bank along the
river because you like the view or what that particular place or
thing has to offer. Although you have tied your boat, the river keep
flowing. As the river flows a tension develops in the rope holding
your boat. That tension goes through all the structural membranes of
the boat as that rope holds the boat in a fixed position against the
current of the river. As the current of the river increases, because
it is time to move on or a new creation is starting to occur, the
tension in the rope increases. At the current become greater and
greater, eventually either the rope breaks, you let go or the boat
rips apart.
The boat tied to the pier will not hold back the river current.
Something will eventually give. More often that not the flow life
will not give but something in your being will give. When we hold
things in our life that need to be let go, the tension that results
from holding against the current flows of the universe causes us to
feel pain. Analogously if we cause the boat to rip apart, you can
look at that as being the accident, illness, disease or misfortune
that one creates as result of holding to what needed to be released.
What also needs to be understood is that all pain does not manifest
at the exact point of the cause of the tension. It manifests at the
point of weakness much like the way a chain breaks at the weakest
link. Given our row boat example. If the back of the boat is ripped
off because the front of the boat is attached to a rope holding it
to a pier, the place the boat separates give no indications of what
the actual cause of the problem was that created the rip in the
boat.
So too pain. If you look exactly at the location of the pain you
will not necessarily see its cause which created the pain. You may
only be looking at the weakest link in the chain. The ultimate cause
is the rope is tied to the pier and is holding the boat against the
flow of the river. The cause of pain is your attachment.
It also needs to be noted that in the body, some organs do not have
a great ability to indicate pain and its only though neighboring
tissues or associated tissues that the warning is heard. So too with
part of our being. Where the pain manifests may only be the warning
offered by a neighboring tissue or part of our being. To treat the
location of pain, the cause of the pain may in fact be missed and
subsequently you end up masking the cause.
Two ways
to view pain (Top)
Now there are two primary ways we
experience pain. One is through our desire for experience and the
pain is only the warning we may be exceeding one of our existing
limits to our current creation. In this case, the pain brings us to
the awareness to look and see the rope holding the boat. In this
situation, our current creation is that we want the experience the
shore can give us. That is why we have attached our boat at this
place in the river. But we are holding to the vehicle we created for
an experience of the. The vehicle for the river, the boat, does not
serves us on the shore. So we need to decided whether we go with the
flow of the river and the boat or do we leave the boat and stay on
the shore and experience a different flow of energy.
The second way to view pain is as a denial of a truth. The truth is
that we are holding to an attachment that must be let go. The boat
is holding to the shore. Here, we have a vehicle for the experience
of the river and we want the experience of the river. But by being
attached to the shore, we hold to an experience that is not of the
river and not appropriate to the vehicle we have chosen. So where we
must face the truth. Do we want to experience the river or do we
wish to experience the shore.
In the end, both views are the same whether. We limit what we can
create and cause ourselves pain by restricting ourselves to the
current creation. We hold to an attachment that does not support the
creation we desire to experience. In either case, we are holding to
something that will need to be let go. In one case we hold to the
experience at the point of where the shore and river meet and in the
other case we hold to the vehicle that is being pulled by the flow.
In either case we have to let go. Either get out of the boat or let
the rope go.
Now note needs to be made here.
Letting go of the rope requires a different action than getting out
of the boat. Yet both actions will adequately and effectively
address removing the tension in the rope. However, you need to ask
yourself which action is what you desire to experience or are you
listening to the guidance of someone else because they appear to
know how to remove the pain. Alternatively said, there are more than
one way to relieve the pain you experience. The question is which
method or approach serves your overall creative needs as opposed to
simply responding to the pain and allowing it and the advice of
others lead you to something that may be pleasurable but not not
necessarily serves your unique needs.
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