| "Suffering is not in the fact, but in your perception | | | | my experience, I believe the family bloodline |
| of the fact," Sri Bhagavan, Oneness University. | | | | carried the suffering. We can choose to allow the |
| Bhagavan explains that as long as we see our | | | | vileness of our family bloodline to dissolve as we |
| suffering as resulting from external events, we | | | | permit greater Light of God into our bodies. |
| will continue to avoid or want to escape our | | | | I had a choice to forgive my father rather than |
| suffering. We will blame others. If instead we shift | | | | continue to carry the suffering in my body. |
| the way we see suffering by shifting our | | | | Therefore, I reached out my hand and in so |
| awareness inward towards ourselves, we come | | | | doing, allowed him release from his suffering. |
| at some point to realize that our suffering results | | | | We may ask, how do we succumb to the |
| from how we see and experience events and | | | | vileness of another person? I succumbed to my |
| people. In other words, we see through the | | | | father's vileness by first resisting, and in the |
| limited view of the colored glasses of our own | | | | resistance, I took it on. In addition, when we |
| misperceptions of outer reality. The answer to | | | | succumb to strong emotions, this takes us into |
| our suffering lies within ourselves. | | | | suffering, which drains our energy and we feel |
| Another way of understanding suffering follows in | | | | fatigued. This opens the door for the vileness of |
| my own personal experience. As we encounter | | | | negative energies of others to enter into us. |
| vileness in others, which can turn our stomachs, | | | | "Pain is a relatively objective, physical |
| we have the tendency to resist or succumb. This | | | | phenomenon; suffering is our psychological |
| resistance creates suffering for us. Another way | | | | resistance to what happens. Events may create |
| exists for us. We can reach out through another's | | | | physical pain, but they do not in themselves |
| vileness to their inner soul essence. In other | | | | create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. |
| words, see beyond their suffering to the inward | | | | Stress happens when your mind resists what is..." |
| beauty of the person. | | | | Dan Millman author, "The Peaceful Warrior." |
| Recently I had an opportunity to reach out to my | | | | (c) Copyright - Michael David Lawrience. All Rights |
| father who had died over thirty years ago. I had | | | | Reserved Worldwide. |
| resisted the vileness of his alcoholism all my life. In | | | | |