Pain Can Become Samadhi

 

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Pain Can Become Samadhi

Every pain and suffering in life can lead us on to attaining a state of samadhi – this is simply because the points of pain become breakthroughs. It is through pain that one transcends, never through pleasure, because in pleasure one indulges and one becomes more and more oblivious of one’s being. When everything is going well, who bothers? Then one is on a merry-go-round, lost. But when pain is there, suffering is there, one naturally becomes more alert, more aware – one has to be: the pain is a great challenge.

If we accept pain, if we don’t deny it, if we are not scared of it, if we accept it as part of life with no judgement, with no idea of whether it is good or bad – it is simply there, it is a fact, neither good nor bad. Once we accept this as true, we start transcending, we become more alert, more a witness. The pain is there but we are no more identified with it.

If we suffer an accident and the leg can’t be saved, then the leg may be cut but we will remain intact. Nothing will be cut from us; our consciousness will not lose anything in it… and that is the real thing. The cutting of the leg is almost just as if we cut the sleeve of the shirt – mm? inside we remain intact: we are not our shirt, the sleeve is not our hand. In exactly the same way, the leg is not us, the body is not us. Even if the whole body disappears nothing disappears – one remains. So let this be a great experience.

Our whole approach should be to accept whatsoever life brings: accept it with gratefulness, with thankfulness. Don’t have a grudge. It is very natural to have a grudge but through having a grudge we will miss the point.

Life itself is a mystery – that’s why it exists for no reason at all. If there is a reason there is no mystery. It is mysterious… it is unknown. And all those who claim that they know are just on ego-trips. Not a single thing is known and not a single thing can be known. All our knowledge remains superficial, just an acquaintance; it never solves the mystery. So, we have to understand this – that not a single thing is known and not a single thing can be known… that ignorance is utter and ultimate but it is innocent and very intimate.

Things are as they are, and we have to accept; what else is there to do? In that acceptance is transcendence. Then we don’t have any grudge; we are happy the way we are. And who knows? Life is so mysterious that one never knows – all one can do is flow with the tide – go where life takes us happily.