TO SUFFER OR NOT TO SUFFER

Was published in Spanish on October 15^th 2013

Buddha in his first teaching said something to attendees, which over time has been translated in many ways, they are all similar and apparently with a same meaning. The reality, at least for me, is that there is a world between those understandings and therefore our understanding is sometimes, so wrong.

"To live, the existence, life, is or entails suffering." These are the translations more or less that I have read or heard what the buddha said, about the experience of life he had had.

When he explained to attendees, the reason for the suffering that they were living, he did it so they could see it in their own lives. Hardly they would have understood if He would have told them that life is: joy, happiness, health, fullness, etc,... ..

This teaching would have been completely contrary, to that the attendees were perceiving in their own experience of the circumstances.

My first experience in the snow, was an intense, deep, cold which left me, stunned and unable to move myself. I guess than their (the snow experience), would be an immense heat, that made  it to be melt, and made it impossible for it to live (been snow). Both of us, share the experience of our first encounter, with totally different sensation, even wen it was, the same and unique experience.

To really experience Life, we cannot do it only with one of the two halves, we have, we must do so, with both half.

This is the origin of Yin and Yang, two halves of a same individuality, with the sole condition, that they must be toguether, never separate. Thinking just a little, everyone knows that anything, even a part of something, always has two halves.

When the two halves are together and none of them knows about the existence of the other, that's to say “when we love someone or something so much that we don't feel separation, that we are fully integrated, we are a single Life. When one of the two halves perceives the other, what it really lives or experiences is the contrast between both. If we feel hot, is because the other half has less heat (colder), if we feel happiness the other half feels sadness. That is, the Yin perceive the Yang and Yang perceive or experience the Yin.

When in our lives we feel the separation between us and the Wholeness, or with Life, the result is, that our happiness and our good health, perceive, live, feel or experience are: suffering and disease.

That is why the Buddha when speaking to us about a life of happiness, acceptance, integration and perfect, was speaking about the same life that we were perceiving from our idea of separation, not accepting things, trying to possess something that we believe is  in the half separated from us, that is, because we  cannot understand that life is One and Unique Life.

This state of ignorance, bring us into a situation where trying to feel happiness we only feel suffering (yin-yang). This is because, we take full attention or we are living, what we are perceiving, instead than what we really are.

The Buddha’s experience, probably was this Oneness of Life, realizing that everything was just ONE, and understood that Life Is just To Be-ness, and that life's essence is manifesting Happiness only. The same that we are, as life's manifestation. As we're then Happiness itself, what can we experience within an existence lived in freedom e ignorance?

Nothing can feel itself, pain, cannot feel painful, being pain, that absolute ignorance cannot know even about beingt ignorant, this why, we only can see just what is obvious, as we had said at the beginning of this paragraph.

We are sick, unhappy and dissatisfaed people, of them the third one the main origin for suffering.

To cure our suffering, more important than satisfaction is acceptation.

Only someone sick can get good health, only who knows suffering, can appreciate happiness. But only when you accept what is and how it is at this moment, you can be Happiness.