This question can save you thousands of hours of suffering.
Or grief.
Or discontent.
Or worry.
How?
You feel badly, say. And you have the good
fortune to be present enough
to
notice that you feel badly.
Emotionally you feel badly,
and there is almost always a
thought that accompanies the suffering.
That seems to "justify" the suffering,
but really,
it's the stage,
the edifice,
the platform on which the suffering lives.
Frequently about someone else, and how they
should treat you, or someone you like,
better.
Note the word should.
It's almost always lurking next to suffering.
Comparing.
What is,
to how it "should" be.
And here's where to pop in the
"Is it true?"
Who says "what is" "should" be different?
Is it true, this
set of words,
this platform,
this edifice?
Compared to what?
Well, to your breathing say.
Are you breathing in or are you breathing out
or are you in some pause between the two?
Compared to your connection to gravity:
are you pressing into the Earth,
with feet,
or thighs,
or back,
or hands,
or arms,
or belly,
can you feel where you are pressing into the Earth,
which,
having read Newton,
is pressing back up
into your body?
Breath and gravity.
Now.
These seem true no matter what words we tell
about them,
or thoughts we have,
or who agrees
or who disagrees.
But that "so and so should ...... more"
Hmmmmm
Ask,
"It it true?"
and see if a little of a lot of freedom
appears on the other side
of
the question.
