Author Topic: "I am free from suffering" (Read 648 times)

CarsonZi · « **on:** February 17, 2011, 05:03:31 PM »

I just arrived back home from doing a 3hr "The Work" workshop. In this workshop I picked two statements to do the work on. One was, "I am free from suffering" (I picked this statement because I have actually been believing this). This statement and the resulting "Work" that followed was incredibly revealing for me and I wanted to share what I realized.

I started with the first question, "Is it true?"

I dropped the statement in Silence and allowed the answer to arise..... "No, it is not true that I am free from suffering."

So, I moved on to the, "How do I react/feel/what happens when I believe this thought." Again I dropped this question into Silence and allowed the answer to arise from within. What I got was this; "I feel superior, ego inflated and like I have all the answers. I feel fake, I begin to question/second guess myself, and I feel like others are judging me." Here I began to cry as you may well imagine.

From there I moved on to the fourth question in Katie's "The Work"...."Who would I be without this thought?" Once again I dropped the question into Silence and waited for the answer to arise....which it did. The answer was; "I would just be me.....but absolutely free."

Then I turned my statement around. "I am not free from suffering." This is when the release happened. In allowing myself the freedom to suffer, I lost the suffering. What a paradox! In believing that I am free from suffering I found that I WAS suffering. In allowing myself the freedom TO suffer, I lost the suffering. There was freedom.

To me, this is a great weight lifted off of my shoulders. I am not free from suffering. I am free to suffer. What a joy!

Love!

Ananda · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:49:04 PM »

Big thank you[

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Ananda · « **Reply #2 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:50:04 PM »

And lots of love towards you and your lovely family <3

Sparkle · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:51:56 PM »

Lovely Ca[

]rson, thanks

Katrine · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2011, 04:31:16 AM »

Beautiful Carson.

Tusen takk

karl · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2011, 05:52:44 AM »

Yes, acceptance, simple to understand and difficult to practice with all the mirrors of the mind refracting the truth and bending it into multi forms.

Good learning.

bewell · « **Reply #6 on:** February 18, 2011, 12:13:48 PM »

quote:
Originally posted by CarsonZi
...I feel like others are judging me." Here I began to cry as you may well imagine.

Carson

Good work! You're a trail-blazer in my little map of the woods. I laughed with recognition when I read this line:

"..I feel like others are judging me.' Here I began to cry as you may well imagine."

Yes, I can relate.

I saw Byron Katie do what she does once for about an hour when she visited DC. Thanks for refreshing my memory of "the work."

Be

mr_anderson · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2011, 05:19:31 AM »

thanks for sharing carson. beautiful

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