Two Kinds of Suffering

There are two kinds of suffering, the kind you run away from that follows you everywhere, and the kind you are willing to face which is the one that will bring you freedom.

Suffering in this existence is pretty much inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be where it’s a hinderance. There are many lessons to learn in our life, until it’s realized there are two kinds of suffering and the one you’re most likely stuck in is your the suffering that follows you everywhere, it will remain in place. This is the dog chasing its tail suffering and it never ends because it can’t. It’s controlling energy is immersed in the attachment to “I” and as long as this is in place it will follow you everywhere. “I” keeps in firmly locked in place, nothing satisfies the unquenchable thirst of “I” so this why the suffering follows you everywhere; “I” is always thirsty. Even though this is the suffering that’s in place for most, there is another kind of of suffering that is actually beneficial to one’s well being and this is because it pushes you to a state where there is freedom.

The freedom I write about is from the attachment to “I” not the suffering, but without “I” there’s no one to suffer. This other kind of suffering leads to freedom because as this energy arises and it will, instead of attaching to it, one allows it to push you to new insights and revelations; you are with the pain of what arises instead of pushing it away. There’s no reaching to mask it, there’s no running from it or using something as a distraction. What happens when one makes a stand and is with what arises, the lies of “I” are exposed, and if there’s no “I” there’s nothing for the suffering to follow, liberation naturally occurs. Read this very carefully and if the full meaning of this can be grasped, freedom from the suffering that’s been following you around for most of your life will begin to fall away, but understand this will only occur when there is no “I” to follow.