Causality of suffering

Random musing: Thoughts on suffering, causality, the change of the soul

I think most people can agree to the belief that some causes of suffering are caused by attachments to that which we desire. Yes? In many different ways, different manifestations of our emotional state creates pain and suffering. Either through direct or indirect causes. Our focus and attention to these has the effect of various discomforts.

I believe that, what we choose to focus on, or not focus on, right now - this moment is the source of unhappiness or happiness. This focus is a lens of conscious awareness. How you see yourself in the 'all that is'. I think our search for happiness is buried in the emotional aspects of physical duality...most of the time.

Because our focus is so narrow in physicality it rarely emerges above it. We live within a happiness that can not exist without suffering at it's opposite end. This is a duality. We can not take part of one emotion in the causality of physicality without moving from one end of this spectrum to the other.

We we are not consciously aware of what is going on, we often suffer. We become attached to this swing of one feeling or the other in a seemingly never ending cycle,, that if we are not careful what we feel becomes our reality in ever increasing degrees of intensity.

This intensity is meant to drive us tword spiritual attempts to create a balance between the two aspects of this duality. But I believe the only real redemption and relief from this cycle is one of detachment brought about by a conscious, willful, intentive study, and understanding of the cause of suffering.

To be so sure and steadfast in your knowing that suffering is caused by a separation of Spirit from our perception of all that is,- from your perceived individual life. Only by holding to the realization, the awareness, that all here in this life, this incarnation, is a momentary and passing illusion will be be able to free ourselves from the bound chains of pain.

Only then will we be able to mentally and emotionally relate to the realities of our eternal selves, our true nature. Nothing is lost, everything is gained. Re-evaluating our place in life can be in our best interest.

Are you this life? this body? this pain? is yesterday gone from you forever? Or is there more going on than you realize? Are you more? Who are you really? What are you really? Is your pain due to a perceived separation or is it a lasting wound? Are you less than? Do you wish to be so? Or are you a part of more? I believe this is a choice. I've made mine. Although you don't have to, what choose you?

This all is not to say that you should embrace life with apathy or a lack or care, or feigned uninterest, but rather that we are keeping mind and holding to a broader concept of the nature of the self and life within our day to day mental state.

It does not mean that we shouldn't "feel" or pretend that we do not suffer. For these things can lead to good things depending on what we do. It might be best to use them to drive us to create change. They can be the impetuous of passion, and provide the drive to really explore our place in any given situation.

But if we can step back and hold within our waking state of consciousness a sense of place, a detachment of the mind and a concept of the soul self within each experience, such a position can help us move through suffering and overcome it by changing ourselves, which then will allow for greater opportunities to help others do the same.