Future Suffering Can and Should Be Avoided

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

There is suffering

As individual souls, each streaming from the common Source, we are responsible for our own actions and their results.
This is karma.

There is a cause of suffering

Our unconscious, habitual actions create karmic seeds/habits in our energetic field, which cause us to act in ways that lead to pain in the future.
Our situation now is a result of our past actions.
Future pain orginates in our actions and intentions now.

There is an end to suffering

When we re-connect with Source our actions become naturally more harmonious and our future suffering, and thus that of those around us and in the wider world, is reduced.
By improving our clarity and becoming more aware, we can avoid previous mistakes.

There is a path to the end of suffering

We can re-connect with Source through the consistent and appropriate practice of quietening the mind, without attachment to any outcomes.

References;

Yoga Sutras 02:16
“heyaṃ duḥkham-anāgatam”
“The misery which is not yet come is to be avoided.”
trans: Swami Vivekanda