Why Your Pain Is Actually a Blessing
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For the ego, as Bob Dylan sang, everything is broken at every fractal level. We are here to heal what is broken by releasing seemingly inescapable patterns of suffering that have become frozen in time. Because the ego is only the lowest level of a four-tiered consciousness that has become short-circuited, it is possible to heal. Shunya offers an empirical experiment to shift one’s paradigm to be free, to see within one’s own consciousness the ego’s unreality, and to keep the soul awakened by not entertaining egoic thoughts and instead remaining turned towards the inner light. It will require recognizing that suffering is a blessing of motivation to return home, to remain vulnerable long enough to receive the grace necessary to alchemically transform one’s pain into wisdom. This emptying out and surrender are the only true fulfillment in life and our divine right to leap beyond the ego’s event horizon to the Absolute Self.
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