Pain. Amera Ziganii Rao
To be a warrior is to feel pain and love. Anything less is not even human. Pain is indeed, not an illusion. Pain is real. I feel that spiritual mastery is telling us that we can never avoid pain if we want to be humane or human. We have to transcend it. And to transcend pain is to enter it.
To let it wash over you, pierce you through the heart, create agony in your mind and body and soul and then to release it and make it yours. To embrace the 'beaten up' feeling of the poetry of the ego as soul.
Courage is not courage without fear and love is not love without pain. Pain is of the soul. If you are not feeling true, honest to God pain in each moment in life, you are not living. Pain is regarded as an illusion, because we have to regard it as not pain at all. That is spiritual mastery. That is transcension.
Bravado, reason, relying solely on knowledge and the intellect, raw emotion of anger, hate, envy, and of course need. Wonderful self denial to stop ourselves feeling. To stop ourselves feeling PAIN. Any projection of the heart's agony is avoiding pain and it is not surprising. Been there, done it. But to love is to transcend pain and not to avoid it.
And to me, finally, the greatest analogy is always, always sex. When sex is brought into it, I understand. Passionate sex is painful. Passionate love is painful too. Passionate life is painful and passionate spirit has to love the pain of pain.
And the beautiful irony is this. The most sensitive people on the planet try to feel the least. Sensitive means soulful. Sensitive is of the soul. So we cover it up with the hardest shell of mortal death and destruction and become warlords from the cruelty of hell, despite the immense love we have inside. Pain has to be embraced to live. When the masters of wisdom teach us that pain is an illusion, what they mean is that we have to regard it as an illusion. Otherwise it holds us in our grip forever. And we never become capable of love. It is us who have to see what it is with different eyes. We have to LOVE pain. We have to feel it, hate it, love it, and finally transcend it and make it ours. Pain is not an illusion. Pain is real and the higher we go, the more of it we feel. Warrior existence is to adore the pain and then alchemise our lives through the simple adoration of it. Pain. Love is not love without pain. Inner, soul pain.
Amera Ziganii Rao ©
When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is
called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of
the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
Chuang Tzu
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
Love is to TRANSCEND pain, not avoid it. LIFE is to TRANSCEND pain, not avoid it. The secret of every warrior that ever lived.
Amera Ziganii Rao ©
The difference between knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom takes the warrior discipline of transcending pain. Knowledge avoids it. Warriors are built. Courage is manufactured. Courage being the transcension of fear. Love is manufactured too. Love, being the transcension of pain. Our job in each moment. The applied skills of wisdom. The applied entrance to the soul. Alchemy. Heaven on Earth. 'Joy and Pain, Sunshine and Rain'. 'The virility of a prophet' and the strength of a poet's heart. Transcending pain. Not avoiding it. Living the whole, being the everything and having it all.
Enlightenment. Transcension and love of pain.
Amera Ziganii Rao ©
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