I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed

Harry Goldfarb*

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What I'm doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say "ok, here I am, I'm going to experience the pain," you don't suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
 

Goonzilla

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What I'm doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say "ok, here I am, I'm going to experience the pain," you don't suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Just give birth without an epidural or something?
 

Hippasus

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Resistance to suffering in oneself is an intensifiation of the suffering. I think there is some truth to that. When one owns the negative experience, one is conscious of it in a different way and somehow removed from it.
 

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