lauren on Nostr: At the end of the day, the worst thing that could ever happen to you is simply a ...
At the end of the day, the worst thing that could ever happen to you is simply a “feeling”.
The ideas we hold of pain always seem to stick around. But we avoid feeling anything because we have more or less been taught that our feelings have lives of their own. That they’ll carry on forever if we give them even a moment of our awareness.
Have you ever felt joy for more than a few minutes? No?
What about anger? How about tension, depression, and sadness? Those have lasted longer, haven’t they? Weeks and months and years at a time, right?
That’s because those aren’t feelings. They’re symptoms.
Suffering is just the refusal to accept what is. That’s it.
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The ideas we hold of pain always seem to stick around. But we avoid feeling anything because we have more or less been taught that our feelings have lives of their own. That they’ll carry on forever if we give them even a moment of our awareness.
Have you ever felt joy for more than a few minutes? No?
What about anger? How about tension, depression, and sadness? Those have lasted longer, haven’t they? Weeks and months and years at a time, right?
That’s because those aren’t feelings. They’re symptoms.
Suffering is just the refusal to accept what is. That’s it.
#nostr #grownostr #plebchain