Meditation

[Jeremy]

Well, I disagree with the Buddhist and mister Tolle. With all due respect, but suffering has not cracked me open, self-love and acceptance has. What will you say to your kids, "No, you have to go through a long cycle of rejecting your true self first, so you will suffer because it teaches you well?" We can't avoid pain but even that can be as fleeting as joy/happiness, given the circumstances you're creating for yourself. Life itself already provides a great variety of experiences/emotions, suffering is not an almighty learning tool, it's just a byproduct of negligence.


What makes me wonder is why you'd want to hold on to these kind of beliefs?

But if you hadn't gone through what you have, how do you know you would have come to this self love and acceptance? That's where the beauty of suffering lies. While one is neck deep in s***, one can't see the forest for the trees. But once one rises above and sees that light at the end of the tunnel, one can then truly appreciate what one has gone through to be where they are.

I am, without a doubt, overjoyed at what I have found after the hell that I have gone through. If I hadn't, I highly doubt I would have ever come to the point that I am.