Divine Utterances:
Suffering




This page includes a small selection from the many Divine Utterances (which Adi Da sometimes humorously called "Holy Mutterances") that Adi Da spoke or wrote from 1972 to 2008, on the topic of Suffering. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.


Related words and topics:
  • un-Happiness
  • pain of existence


    You are mortal, and entirely subject to the Mercy of the Divine. You own nothing, and you know nothing. No technique of meditation leads to the Divine Being, and there is nothing to be believed that is the Truth. Rather, you must be touched in your feeling by the unspeakable suffering of this world and return everything to the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Divine Person.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Death & Dying,   Suffering



    If you would have your life not be about bondage, Reality Itself must Transform your life.

    The Aletheon

    tags:   Nature of Reality,   Suffering



    Real humor is a spiritual matter. It transcends even laughter, because it transcends the pain of existence.

    "The Universe Is a Laughing Matter"
    Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
    Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!

    tags:   Divine Humor,   Suffering



    You will try all kinds of extraordinary healing methods, psychic methods, Yogic methods — anything to get rid of this root-sense of pain and agony that you have all the time. You will continue to pursue every kind of means until you realize that all you are doing is pinching yourself. When you realize that, you just take your hand away. There is nothing complicated about it at all.

    My "Bright" Word

    tags:   Egoity,   Seeking,   Self-Understanding,   Suffering



    When you open your hand, what happens to your fist? When you release the self-contraction, the "me" is gone, the search is gone, the entire principle of suffering is undermined.

    "Vital Shock"
    My "Bright" Word

    tags:   Egoity,   Self-Understanding,   Suffering



    So all that a man is suffering is fascination with the force of his own activity and experience, which represents to him the separate self sense (identification or "ego"), the field of differentiation (the conceptualized world), and the endless adventure of seeking (mysterious motivation or desire).

    My "Bright" Word

    tags:   Egoity,   Identification,   Seeking,   Suffering



    When you see that you are always seeking, understanding is emerging. When you see the pattern of Narcissus as all your motives, all your acts, all your seeking, understanding is emerging. When you see you are always suffering, understanding is emerging. When you see that every moment is a process in dilemma, understanding is emerging. When you see that every moment is a process of identification, differentiation and desire, understanding is emerging. When you see that every moment, when you are at your best as well as when you are at your worst, you are only avoiding relationship, then you understand. When you see that which already is, apart from the avoidance of relationship, which already absorbs consciousness prior to the whole dilemma, motivation and activity of avoidance, then you have finally understood.

    The Knee Of Listening

    tags:   Dilemma,   Identification,   Seeking,   Self-Understanding,   Suffering



    You can suffer, or you can love. You can complain, or you can surrender. You can abuse, or you can bless. It is really just that simple.

    "You Can Suffer Or You Can Love"

    tags:   Love,   Suffering,   Surrender



    I intend to make the most extraordinary statement of this time — one that will make all suffering, all fundamental error, unnecessary. A most practical communication that reduces all suffering to misunderstanding, and makes creative energy available in Perfect Freedom. I was born for this very thing.

    tags:   Self-Understanding,   Suffering






    Da


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