'Suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body. When you p | تفحص خویش

"Suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body. When you put your hand in the fire, you experience pain. The pain is not a mistake, it’s not something that’s wrong. The pain is the intelligence of the body, telling you: take your hand out of the fire. So pain is working on behalf of your wellbeing. Suffering is exactly the same at the level of the mind, a signal that something needs attending to, a message that we have mistaken our Self for a cluster of thoughts and feelings. In other words, suffering is not here to thwart us; it is not a punishment. On the contrary, it is here to help us. It is a wake-up call. That’s what suffering is. It is cooperating with your desire for happiness. It’s telling you, you’ve got your hand in the fire. Suffering is telling you: 'You have mistaken yourself for a separate limited self. Have another look!' To begin with, it is a gentle call, but in time it gets more and more severe. However, irrespective of its intensity, the wake-up call is always saying the same thing: we have overlooked or forgotten who we truly are."
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