Endure transient pain without mental suffering: Quotes and inspired haiku


 QUOTES

  • Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Loss is unavoidable; grief isn't. Death is certain. And life? Well, life isn't certain. Its uncertainty, unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is...we are mistaking our pain for our suffering. We have little control over the former but the latter is almost entirely in our hands... All it takes is to be able to open our eyes. This choice, we must remember, is ours; always. ~Om Swami
  • Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. ~The Buddha
  • You cannot do anything about it, but you can use this natural suffering for creating a more clear awareness, more consciousness. And then suddenly you will feel even grateful to the suffering. ~Osho
  • To live with compassion, you must understand what suffering is. Is suffering apart from the physical pain, physical disease, physical accident, which generally affects the mind, distorts the mind? If you have had physical pain for some time it twists your mind, and to be aware that the physical pain cannot touch the mind requires tremendous inward awareness. ~J Krishnamurti

INSPIRED HAIKU

Pain passes away -

Let go pain, witness rise-n-fall -

Remain equanimous!

***

Pain is stuff of mind

Rise above and beyond mind -

Pain is transient 

***

In false-transient world

Pain is inevitable -

Remain unattached!

***

Deep practice let-go

Acquire equanimity -

Be, and let pain be !


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