The Kleshas Week 3 - Raga and Dvesha: Life Happening From Us, Not To Us
We’ve managed, over the last week, to turn the topic of suffering into something wonderful. We talked about nothing but the cause of suffering — and found it to be good news. Good yogic news about suffering. But the enquiry — I think it is the greatest enquiry there is. The most important contemplation we can partake in. “What is this suffering?” “How does it create me?” “Is life creating me?” “Is it happening to me?” “Or am I creating me?” “Or… am I not?” Understand that there is suffering — and we are not talking about hardship. We are not talking about pain. No matter how gloriously positioned your life might be, no matter how heavenly it might be, it will still have hardship. It will still have challenge. It will still have pain. It will still have loss. I could put you in a palace, surround you with comfort, make everything just the way you want it. Hardship would still come to find you. It is built into the fabric of Life. Challenge is what we grow through. It give...