The yogis said that this practice
doesn't take away our pain,
but it takes away suffering. It reduces
our suffering.
So pain is kind of non-negotiable. It's
kind of a part of life.
So maybe the pain of sitting and listening
to the woman writing out her check -
I really did
listen to her spell out
every single word on her check.
So that's painful.
But what do I do next?
So what we are working with
is can we take away that things
happen? No. Sorry.
But what we can take away and what we
can learn to manage with skill
is how we react to things. How we
respond to things.
And so what we're doing here
and what this whole inner dimension of yoga is about
is reducing our self-caused suffering.
There are things that happen all the
time
It's like a door slamming once.
But what we do,
and its obvious in the grocery store,
but what we do is we repeat it
in our head
over and over and over again. Somebody
said something to you once maybe twenty
years ago.
Did they do it? Yes. Is the pain of that
experience real?
Yes, I'm not taking that away. But
what we have done with it is sometimes
we slam that door we tell that story
we repeat it over and over and over again
20, 30, 40 years down the road.
Did they do that to us? Or did we do
that to us?
We did. That is the self-caused suffering
we have the choice to put down. The event,
no,
it happened. I agree. But everything that
came after that - that's us.
And that's what we're looking to put
away.
