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If anyone out there would like some pain - let me know, my wife is waiting for a new hip joint and the pain is excruciating, I'm recovering yet yet another cancer op. and peeing is my new least favourite thing, so we've plenty to spare if someone feels like trying - please let us know.

i think you can "feel" for others but suffering for others... I doubt we can ever suffer for others. Each one has to go through the process on their own. Like when my husband's brother died of cancer... I could feel Abhi's ( my husband) pain but i couldn't suffer like he did or understand what he w...

Sympathy is just a simple reaction of politeness towards ones misfortune where as empathy you feel literal emotional pain for them.  Your pain may not match that of the other person put you are still hurting for them.  Just as you can feel real good when you help them with their pain, that is if yo...

Hi Aldrich

One of the techniques we use opens Sahasara and should the student not be able to close it themselves or they get so lost in it then we have to close it for them, this is why we do not allow students to mess around without an instructor present. There is a very quick way to close, very unpleasant bu...

Losang Rampa strikes again, if you have been reading this travesty of a meditation book - throw it away.

It's amazing how often this concept turns up, the corollary is that only life skills have value. If you don't have the word for the colour blue how can you describe the sky, education implies personal growth but education without life skills is like learning to swim laid across a chair, you may know...

And what will you gain from this?

Hi, Amanda, it's very nice on here.
Stuart

Welcome, enjoy yourself.

I think it's as much to do with low self esteem, which yes is a learned behaviour. If you get told often enough that you're no good, that life is tough and then you die, that no-one will love you  because ........whatever then that is learned behaviour. Think of all the little girls whos family...