| BkI:16.IV.4 | What does this have to do with pain? Everything—because all suffering is emotional. Spirit does not suffer nor can it suffer, because it is complete; likewise the body, given its neutrality. Neither can the soul suffer, since it is pure abstraction. What suffers is always what you call the emotional body or that part of the mind that is attached to and identified with the physical body. The emotional body is like a mesh attached to you through which you perceive what you think you are. We could say that a part of your mind has become trapped in an adhesive matrix, the matrix of pain. The emotional body, like glue, got stuck to part of the soul—the part that wishes to be autonomous—and stayed attached in a painful matrix. Since you are where your mind is, then by jamming that part of the mind, your whole being got clogged. Remember, at any moment you cannot be both in hell and in Heaven. Either you live in love or you live in fear. There is no third option. |