Le pouvoir du moment présent

Chapter Two: Escaping Suffering Through Awareness

This chapter discusses ways to end suffering by embracing the present and understanding the pain in the past. By accepting the current moment and recognizing the ego's role in causing suffering, you can find inner peace and break free from the chains of mental resistance.

• Discover how to minimize current suffering by accepting the present moment.
• Learn ways to dissolve past pain by understanding the body's suffering.
• Techniques on how to break free from the dominance of ego.

Core Content:

1. Accept the Present Moment

• The suffering you create in the present stems from resisting what is.
• Resistance in the form of thought is judgment; emotionally, it's negativity.
• The more you accept the present, the more you free yourself from suffering and mental resistance.
• Say "yes" to the life, and you'll see it working for you instead of against you.
• If the present is unacceptable, observe how the mind labels it.
• See what happens and take action when it's necessary or possible.

2. Dissolving Past Pain: Understanding the Body of Suffering

• Emotional pain leaves residue in your mind and body, forming a body of suffering.
• It can be latent or active and is triggered by events echoing past traumas.
• It needs experiences that produce more pain such as anger and violence.
• Break the identification with your body of suffering by direct watching, which allows the higher dimension of conscious come into play.

3. The Process of Resolving the Body of Suffering

• Focus on the feeling, recognize it as the body of suffering, and accept it.
• Don't think about it, judge, analyze, or identify with it, just remain present as the witness.
• Realize the power of awareness in the present moment.
• The unconsciousness creates it, and the consciousness transforms it.

4. Ego's Identification with the Body of Suffering

• There may be internal resistance to dis-identify with your suffering, especially if the ego relies on this pain for itself.
• Recognize the desire you derive from your suffering or the compulsion to think or talk about it and observe attachment to it.
• Resistance ceases with awareness.

5. The Origin of Fear

• Psychological fear relates to things that might happen, not what is.
• The message the body receives from the ego could be "Danger, I am threatened," generating fear.
• Fears are rooted from ego wanting to prevent them from "death and annihilation".
• Defensive and the need to be right is also a part of them, where losing one of the argument poses possible "death" for the ego.

6. Ego Seeks Completeness

• The deepest feeling of not being whole comes from emotions inside ego.
• People consume themselves with gaining possessions to fill the emptiness in themselves.
• The ego seeks objects to cling onto such as material, status, recognition, knowledge, appearance, relationships, and belief systems.

Q&A

Q: How does one distinguish between rational fear of a real danger (like fire) and psychological fear?

A: Rational fear is a sensible response to actual, immediate danger, and psychological fear relates to the things that "might happen", or projections of the mind into the future.

Q: Is there any potential relationship between male and female physical condition with Body of Pain?

A: The Body of Pain wakes up more often for women right before the menstrual cycle. During this time, you can stay present in the moment and transmute all the past sufferings.

Q: What does the quote "On can all unveil it by exposing to the light, and all that is thus explosed becomes himself light" entails?

A: Just as the darkness cannot be defeated in combat, so too can the body of suffering not be overcome by fighting it.