A Wisdom Archive on painful

Let's talk about pleasure and pain. Pleasure first, because it makes you feel good. But life's pleasures seem so fleeting and evanescent, like glistening dewdrops that evaporate with the first hint of the warm rays of the sun.
 
A pleasant state of being , we instinctively feel, is intrinsically unstable. Pleasure vanishes like a transient bubble, while pain endures. What is pleasant is short-lived because the human mind quickly gets used to it, and subconsciously craves to heighten and intensify that feeling of pleasure, as it lingers in the memory and haunts the mind.
 

 
(See also: Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul )

Read more here: » Love and Happiness: Fleeting Pleasure, Enduring Pain

It's not surprising to see both Hindus and Muslims praying at the dargah of the thirteenth century sufi, Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia (1244-1325), in New Delhi. A refugee who had sought shelter here along with his parents, when Bukhara was subjected to repeated Mongol invasions, Nizamuddin never went back to the Central Asian Republic. Living here amongst the common people, he stressed that a mystic should transcend all barriers of religion, race and language in dealing with human beings.

 
(See also: Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul )

Read more here: » Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia: Healing the Human Heart of Pain  

Godhra is a major electoral issue as Gujarat goes to the polls. The likes of Gujarat’s politicians could not have occasioned Basile’s remark: ''Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.’’ This is not so when memory is used to imagine annihilation, reason for carnages, exhort those in majority to shun their conscience, and banish civilised thoughts of religious coexistence.

 
(See also: Politics, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul )

Read more here: » Politics: Politics of Memory - Reliving the Pain  

Dukkha (Sanskrit). Sorrow, pain.

 
(See also: Dukkha, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,  )

BOJI - a stone used to take away pain by closing holes in the energy field of the human body. (NAD)

 
(See also: BOJI, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary )

Invultuation: Invultation is the practice of sticking pins in a wax doll in order to cause pain or harm to a victim.

 
(See also: Invultuation, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca )

It is very easy to advise others. Only the one who suffers knows the extent of the pain. At the same time there is no difference between one person'spain and another"s, whether that person is rich or poor.
 
No philosophy, sermon or concept will help relieve that suffering immediately. It is useful, however, to remember that at the core of any pain-causing conflict there is duality. We are part of a cycle that contains both pain and pleasure, creating a split between mind and body, delaying the healing process.
 
Duality is all-pervasive; it is present in everything around us. Even that oft-quoted line from Shakespeare reflects this: "To be or not to be".
 

 
(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul )

Read more here: » Peace of Mind: Find the Oneness Beyond Duality

Adhi-bhautika duhkha (Sanskrit). The second of the three kinds of pain; lit., "Evil proceeding from external things or beings".

 
(See also: Adhi-bhautika duhkha, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,  )

Adhyatmika duhkha (Sanskrit). The first of the three kinds of pain; lit., "Evil proceeding from Self ", an induced or a generated evil by Self, or man himself.

 
(See also: Adhyatmika duhkha, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,  )