PAIN
There are two kinds of Pain:
one that comes from Life and is
unpredictable—
and one that comes from self-inflicted Vices, and is very predictable.
This commentary is about self-inflicted pain,
another phenomenon of being a member in a mad society.
It is painful to feel crazy and nervous—to chronically feel stress, to constantly worry—to always be in Reaction Mode.
We are like the wires on a guitar that have been wound too tightly. The tighter we turn the pegs, the more intensely the strings pull, until eventually they snap, flying into the air—or perhaps into our faces.
Keeping it together—
maintaining those strings as they get tighter and tighter, fraying little by little—is like walking across a fast river on slippery rocks. The sensation is scary, and possibly dangerous.
The Fear comes when we feel out of control—every step being a possible spill into the river. It is dangerous because we could fall, get injured, or go rushing downstream into oblivion.
The sheer act of holding our footing on those slippery rocks is stressful! Stress creates tension, and make no mistake,
Tension hurts.
So not only are we in constant stress-states ready to snap, if the pulling doesn’t stop—but this chronic tension is, also, painful.
Ready to Snap, and full of Pain! Fine state we are in!
The more we latch onto Vices—
which injure the body and cover the truth—
the more pain we find ourselves in.
For Vices hurt.
The reality of a vice, as a mechanism
that clenches one thing into another—
like a cocktail clenches us into an illusion of courage, or a joint secures us into an illusion of freedom—is Painful.
For all Vices squeeze, and can do so until something breaks.
Clench yourself with intensity—
make your hand squeeze your arm. If you clench hard enough, you can cut off the circulation.
See how it can hurt?
The more we spend precious energy
cutting off the circulation of our breath,
cutting off the circulation of our feelings,
and cutting off the circulation of our truth,
the more we hurt.
Pain is here to teach us Endurance;
but chronic self-inflicted pain is a sign of self-hatred—a fear of one’s own Emotions,
and an unconscious desire to end it all.
Self-inflicted Pain will never give us Power—endurance—for our bodies will slowly deteriorate, and we will be too weak to sustain the high energy connected with Power.
So people! Stop hurting yourselves! There are those of us who will miss you if you implode.
Thank you, Sun
Infantiles
Separation