Going Beyond Pain & Pleasure to Enlightenment
May 28th, 2015 What
if I were to tell you that one of the secrets to becoming enlightened
was to move beyond reaction to pain or pleasure? That it was an act of
finding the balance between both and no longer being pulled by one or
the other? This is something I have started to suspect for a
while now in my own experiences and meditations. I have noticed that
whenever I experience a great deal of pleasure, joy, excitement and end
up receiving a lot, the universe seeks balance by then sending me the
opposite. It isn't because I have been bad, or have been undeserving I
feel. I have been very privileged in my life experiences in the realms
of joy and pleasure. Conversely I have also found that I have
experienced a good amount of physical, mental, and emotional pain as
well. Does the universe seek balance? Can one experience
heaven without experiencing hell? These are questions I have asked my
self for a very long time. I dont know if my soul would understand pure
bliss were it not for the pains I have experienced. After a
few years of exploration into the realms of consciousness it seems that I
keep coming back around to a desire for peace. A desire for balance.
At first I struggle to maintain the peace and balance because the
worldly appetites that bring pleasure, for me it is mostly food, pull me
away from my balance. I regret it later when my stomach hurts and I
have over indulged in things that may not be the best for my body. Then
I cycle into a space of feeling irresponsible. I have this wonderful
body that helps me ground into this reality. It allows me to experience
this existence and yet I treat it so poorly. This poor treatment
typically lays in the realms of wanting to feel good. This
leads me to another question. Why are we so obsessed with always
wanting to feel good? When we are having a good experience I believe
feeling good is completely appropriate. But when we end up seeking
good, as if the feeling or thoughts of good were a drug, we end up
creating a cycle that wraps back around to a space of suffering. And I
don't know anyone who enjoys suffering. I am starting to clearly see that it is throug |