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In reading scriptures and studying the doctrines, you should turn all words
right around and apply them to yourself. All the verbal teachings point to
the inherent nature of the immediate mirroring awareness. As long as this
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		Posted on Jan.09.2013 @ 05:45AM EDT by IZIZIZ Can you suffer from happiness?
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Reply from Sam Hardy Jan.09.2013 12:01PM EDT →Email Sam Hardy		Good question. And can you enjoy suffering? You can suffer and still be happy.
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Reply from Woodsman Jan.09.2013 12:21PM EDT		When in happiness suffering is not a question.
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Reply from BlankName Jan.09.2013 02:58PM EDT →Email BlankName		Meditation is the healing process of suffering.
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Reply from BlankName Jan.09.2013 03:20PM EDT →Email BlankName		Stand witness to suffering.
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Reply from Riverstone Jan.10.2013 01:51PM EDT		The attachment to happiness can be painful.
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Reply from Riverstone Jan.11.2013 08:39PM EDT		Quote: "Meditation is the healing process of suffering." ......... My experience is not that meditation removes suffering, rather, it makes visible the dynamics of ones suffering and attachment, allowing one to chose, and move beyond suffering.
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Reply from leoj99 Jan.12.2013 04:58AM EDT		I don't think happiness and suffering can mix together. The absence of suffering is happiness and likewise the absence of happiness is suffering. You can be in pain yet you are still happy. Pain per se is not suffering. But you can suffer due to your pain. You can also suffer without pain.
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Reply from Woodsman Jan.12.2013 09:27AM EDT		Acceptance and kindness to suffering opens the door to free the contribution next to, above, below and beyond it until we become the opening for which we are created again.
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