D - I was struck by a sentence that was said at the beginning: that everything that happens is for our good; therefore suffering is also an experience that is sometimes necessary to evolve.
When we have not learned or understood things in any other way then, the only way to make ourselves understood is the situation of suffering. Having said this, we are in the period of Lent and Easter will soon be celebrated, what is the meaning of the sacrifice of this great Teacher who has suffered for us, that is, for our mistakes? How can her suffering help us if we are to experience it?
Look, the great Masters - when they intervene within the Great Design in such a way as to be able to give an imprint to the Design, to be able to direct it in the direction in which it is written that the Great Design should go - mainly act through example. You are usually more attentive to what the Masters say rather than what they do; but if you take the case - for example - of Christ, you will realize that with his behavior, with his way of being, he indicated the way to be able to modify his own existence.
As I mentioned earlier, the phrase "Thy will be done and not mine" is enough to give a different imprint to the whole reality of the individual, because it means realizing that what is important, what is really important, is not the suffering you are experiencing in the moment is not what your own desires Io in that moment, but it is being able to follow what is the will of the Absolute; because it is only by following the will of the Absolute to the end that we can find that balance, that peace, that communion of intentions that can truly lead to getting out of the wheel of births and deaths.
Here, then, that the intervention in earthly things of a Master like Christ had mainly - at least according to my view - the intention of indicating the cornerstones towards which to direct humanity, towards which to direct the feel of people; cornerstones that were then used, transformed - as always happens - by those who had to carry on this discourse. But I do not want to enter here in the age-old controversy against the Pope or other similar figures; we say that, however it may be, beyond what happened after, which is the natural transformation that occurs when things pass through the hands and minds of human beings, what is important is to be able to treasure not so much words (which over time have also been transformed, reaching you) but of the example that that Master gave; as well as other Masters before and some even after him.
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D - So it is not accurate to say that he suffered in our place, as we hear in some ...
Absolutely no. It would be a little too comfortable, it seems to me; if one thinks about it carefully, it would be convenient to say as some alleged Indian masters do: “We have come to take away your sins, we suffer for you, we take away your karma” and so on.
But, then, what sense would the lives of those individuals have had up to that point? Nobody! While it makes sense to say: “I am here, with my example and with my suffering I show you how you can go towards suffering suffering less”.
This is certainly a teaching that then, in reality, actually helps others not to suffer, because if one manages to say "Thy will be done", his suffering does not mean that it disappears - the physical one, of course - but the inner one disappears completely. , at that point; and if the inner suffering disappears, you know that it is also easy to be able to feel the physical one much less.
Q - But then everything that happens during a person's life belongs to his or her karma, is it not even avoidable?
Most events are not avoidable, no. Unfortunately, this is a very complicated issue that can be dealt with in a meeting like this. Certainly what the individual experiences in the course of his life has a meaning, it has a why; this meaning must be sought not only in the course of the life that the individual is living but also in the course of the previous lives that he has lived; but the common thread of all the lives of the individual is given by what?
It comes from the understandings he has drawn over the course of his lifetimes. If there is something that he did not understand in one life, it is necessary that he understand it in the next life otherwise he would not go on and, if this thing continues to be not understood, here at a certain moment an experience will have to come in order to which the individual will be forced to observe this experience, to have it, and therefore to find himself so much in it that he cannot avoid having it and, therefore, that he cannot fail to understand what he could have understood before if only he had wanted to. Georgei
".... what he could have understood before, if only he had wanted to".
These words, they sound like slaps to me.
While everyone does what is possible according to their understandings, on the other there is the possibility of avoiding certain scenes if only they want to understand.
Difficult to understand what the border is.
Suffering, of any kind, cannot be delegated!
The other hinge is that the example, both individual and of the other, is the most effective means through which being a teacher and being a pupil is manifested.
"... what is important, what is really important, is not the suffering that one is experiencing in the moment, it is not what one's ego desires at that moment, but it is being able to follow what is the will of the Absolute ..."
Your will be done, not mine. I undergo the suffering necessary for the acquisition of understandings, I do not flee.
To surrender to His will means to stop resisting the facts of life and thus gradually stop suffering.
As long as suffering is experienced as an injustice and its meaning is not understood, it is experienced with greater pain.
Being aware that suffering is not an injustice, but has a cosmic function in the grand design, helps to accept its inevitability and to alleviate its burden.
Suffering and end