Comments on: Pain Is Unavoidable, Suffering Is Optional http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/ The Personal Development Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=257 By: fitness girl http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-91591 fitness girl Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:03:27 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-91591 I agree with you Damien,,letting go of something makes you feel comfortable.Move on and start a new. I agree with you Damien,,letting go of something makes you feel comfortable.Move on and start a new.

]]> By: 100 Ways To Screw Up Your Life http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-79940 100 Ways To Screw Up Your Life Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:34:45 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-79940 [...] some point in your life, you’re going to be hit hard. We all do. Pain is unavoidable. But suffering is optional. If you give in to pain, you’re creating an attachment and from this attachment suffering [...] [...] some point in your life, you’re going to be hit hard. We all do. Pain is unavoidable. But suffering is optional. If you give in to pain, you’re creating an attachment and from this attachment suffering [...]

]]> By: Damien http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-75041 Damien Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:53:28 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-75041 we suffer because we think, only by stop thinking of desire, hate, aversion and to accept life is as it should be, then we are able to free of suffering. we suffer because we think, only by stop thinking of desire, hate, aversion and to accept life is as it should be, then we are able to free of suffering.

]]> By: dragos http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-73423 dragos Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:23:29 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-73423 Robin, You are such an inspiration! Each time I read some of your comments I breathe fresh air. Thank you :-) Robin,

You are such an inspiration! Each time I read some of your comments I breathe fresh air. Thank you :-)

]]> By: dragos http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-73422 dragos Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:31 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-73422 You can say that, but to some extent I think this applies to physical pain too. If you look at a martial artist, for instance, you'll see that his non-attachment to pain (which is obviously experiencing through all those violent interactions) makes him so powerful. You can say that, but to some extent I think this applies to physical pain too. If you look at a martial artist, for instance, you’ll see that his non-attachment to pain (which is obviously experiencing through all those violent interactions) makes him so powerful.

]]> By: Stress management http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-73415 Stress management Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:49:27 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-73415 I had a feeling that phrase was more for emotional pain. I mean, it doesn't make much sense for physical pain. After all, if someone really hurt us physically, suffering would be inevitable, unless we somehow have a way to not feel physical pain. -- “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” I had a feeling that phrase was more for emotional pain. I mean, it doesn’t make much sense for physical pain. After all, if someone really hurt us physically, suffering would be inevitable, unless we somehow have a way to not feel physical pain.

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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

]]> By: Jonathan | EnlightenYourDay.com http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-72659 Jonathan | EnlightenYourDay.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:52:05 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-72659 Great Title: "Pain Is Unavoidable, Suffering Is Optional" I completely agree! Cheers .-= Jonathan | EnlightenYourDay.com´s last blog ..<a href="http://enlightenyourday.com/2009/11/02/quotes-and-passages-of-poetic-beauty-from-shantaram/" rel="nofollow">Quotes and passages of poetic beauty from Shantaram</a> =-. Great Title: “Pain Is Unavoidable, Suffering Is Optional” I completely agree!

Cheers
.-= Jonathan | EnlightenYourDay.com´s last blog ..Quotes and passages of poetic beauty from Shantaram =-.

]]> By: Robin Easton http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-70062 Robin Easton Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:56:56 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-70062 Dear Dragos, This is a fascinating post. When I went through a long term bout of extreme pain, at first the pain and suffering merged....UNTIL one day I said to myself, Okay, I am in excruciating pain, and yes, it wears me out and drags me down week after week, BUT it is only physical pain. There is still my mind, my spirit and I can still try to choose what I'm going to focus on. I can either identify with the pain or I can identify with what I love...and do as much of what I love as I can within the confines of my physical condition. Even if that simply focusing on loving others and easing their pain or bringing joy to their lives or if that is simply sitting in Nature and allowing both the physical pain and the infinite beauty of Nature to exist within me at the same time. In other words, although it was almost never easy, I kept readjusting my view to focus on Life and all things good. I also learned that every time I had a set back to NOT think that the pain was forever. It was only right now, NOT tomorrow, NOT next week or forever...only right now. It took a great deal of willpower and courage, but honestly? I have to say it made me a very strong woman. It taught me deep compassion for those who are buried in either physical or emotional pain or both. I do not judge others anymore. Most days I see only Love. Thank you dear Dragos for such an insightful post. Hugs, Robin .-= Robin Easton´s last blog ..<a href="http://nakedineden.com/nakedinedenblog/five-perspectives-on-death/" rel="nofollow">Five Perspectives on Death</a> =-. Dear Dragos, This is a fascinating post. When I went through a long term bout of extreme pain, at first the pain and suffering merged….UNTIL one day I said to myself, Okay, I am in excruciating pain, and yes, it wears me out and drags me down week after week, BUT it is only physical pain. There is still my mind, my spirit and I can still try to choose what I’m going to focus on. I can either identify with the pain or I can identify with what I love…and do as much of what I love as I can within the confines of my physical condition. Even if that simply focusing on loving others and easing their pain or bringing joy to their lives or if that is simply sitting in Nature and allowing both the physical pain and the infinite beauty of Nature to exist within me at the same time.

In other words, although it was almost never easy, I kept readjusting my view to focus on Life and all things good. I also learned that every time I had a set back to NOT think that the pain was forever. It was only right now, NOT tomorrow, NOT next week or forever…only right now. It took a great deal of willpower and courage, but honestly? I have to say it made me a very strong woman. It taught me deep compassion for those who are buried in either physical or emotional pain or both. I do not judge others anymore. Most days I see only Love. Thank you dear Dragos for such an insightful post. Hugs, Robin
.-= Robin Easton´s last blog ..Five Perspectives on Death =-.

]]> By: dragos http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-70026 dragos Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:13:37 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-70026 :-) :-)

]]> By: sumera http://www.dragosroua.com/pain-is-unavoidable-suffering-is-optional/#comment-70025 sumera Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:11:40 +0000 http://www.dragosroua.com/?p=3745#comment-70025 i like this post very much. i like this post very much.

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