Avoiding Pain
To try to avoid pain and to always seek
pleasure will mean, much of the
time, the non-acceptance of
truth. It usually means the
rejection of
what is there. It means rejecting your
experience. It means rejecting your
consciousness. It means rejecting yourself. Now how is that going to lead to
harmony and happiness? Sometimes your experience is painful. What are you going to do? It’s your experience. If you don’t want it, you have to throw away. Then you throw away part of yourself. Well, how can you be happy if part of yourself is thrown away?