Posted by fachad on February 9, 2003, at 19:16:48
In reply to Re: Fachad please read and give thoughts !! » fachad, posted by LAURA777 on February 9, 2003, at 9:25:27
> hey Fachad please read this post and i would love to here your thoughts ..
I think you could fill several books with answers from different angles to these questions. But here is one preliminary thought - a way of seeing the question a different way.
>...i also believe that it is an incompleteness in them that causes this behavior ...What if a person takes care of the spiritual end , the physiological end and even the behavioral end but is still is suffering ..
I want to be careful here and state right from the beginning that I am only stating personal opinion, what works for me. I'm not implying that it's true for everyone, or judging anyone for interpreting things differently.
That being said, I think that part of "taking care of the spiritual end" includes finding a way to be at peace with things that are not as they should be, such as feelings of incompleteness and senseless suffering.
The need to understand and cope with those exact feelings are the driving factors behind spirituality.
If the problem (suffering, feelings of incompleteness, or whatever) is solvable by medication, or behavior, some known means, then it is just plain wrong to address it with spirituality. In that case you are evading reality and that is the real danger in a spiritual approach.
But on the other hand, I think that some kind of suffering, be it physical pain, or emotional pain, or emptiness, or boredom, or ennui, or existential dread or whatnot, is always going to be present to some extent, just a little ahead of whatever means our science has developed to relieve suffering.
So for me, taking care of the physical and behavioral components is an on-going lifelong process, and whatever suffering is left after I have done my best is the Prima Materia for the spiritual process.
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