A few years ago when I had a shift in my awareness (or some may call it a spiritual awakening), I realised I was creating a lot of my own suffering within my self. I wasn’t doing it consciously, however I came to realise I was seeing life through a variety of lenses (my ideas, experiences, memories, beliefs etc.) not the way reality actually was. I was misperceiving life – I was seeing what wasn’t instead of what actually is.
In the following clip, Adyashanti talks about this being the cause of suffering.
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[…] Secondly, underneath it all, I was also covering up my feelings of insufficiency and unworthiness (e.g. not being good enough the way I was) and protecting myself from those vulnerabilities. I definitely did not want to feel these feelings (as I was scared) and I also did not want to admit that I really didn’t know what the future held (yes I just wrote that). Actually if we are truly honest with ourselves, no-one knows what the future holds as it hasn’t happened yet. There is a part of the mind (sometimes called the ego) that doesn’t like this, however as I write this I feel a sense of freedom and openness. That dense feeling around my stomach is subsiding and this shows me this was another way I was creating my own suffering. […]
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