"Here is where we come to suffering, because what suffering tells you is
where the mind is clinging. Now, I am talking about your suffering. I
am not talking about somebody elseâs suffering. Letâs just deal with us.
For me, suffering is telling me where my mind is clinging. If I
experience suffering because I am getting old, itâs because I have a
model of myself thatâs other than what this is. This is what this is,
including dying, pain, loss, all of it.
The models in our heads about it, and the way we cling to it, is where the root of suffering is. So when you wanna get free badly enough, you begin to experience your own suffering as grace. You donât ask for it. You donât say, 'Give me suffering,' but when it comes you see it as something thatâs showing you a place where you are holding. That's the place to release."
The models in our heads about it, and the way we cling to it, is where the root of suffering is. So when you wanna get free badly enough, you begin to experience your own suffering as grace. You donât ask for it. You donât say, 'Give me suffering,' but when it comes you see it as something thatâs showing you a place where you are holding. That's the place to release."
- Ram Dass -
