Is Suffering Merely a Word or an Actuality?
Is suffering merely a word, or an actuality? If it is an actuality and not
just a word, then the word has no meaning now, so there is merely the
feeling of intense pain. With regard to what? With regard to an image, to an
experience, to something that you have or have not. If you have it, you call
it pleasure; if you haven’t, it is pain. Therefore pain, sorrow, is in
relationship to something. Is that something merely verbalization, or an
actuality?—as fear cannot exist by itself but only in relationship to
something: to an individual, to an incident, to a feeling. Now, you are fully
aware of the suffering. Is that suffering apart from you and therefore you
are merely the observer who perceives the suffering, or is that suffering
you?
