THE CAUSE OF HUMAN SUFFERING IS ALIVE TODAY IN MANKIND’S SENSE OF SELF 

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Individuals form perceptions of the second-to-second change in their human experience. The emotional relevance of these perceptions is influenced by a kaleidoscopic gauntlet of outside conditioning before being tagged as a “liked” or “disliked” emotion. These emotions create the individual’s memory. These memories shape the individual’s beliefs that form their sense of self … their identity … the unique character that conveys the individual’s worldview. (Disney’s movie Inside Out 2)

“An individual’s consciousness … sense of self … is the most important factor in life. It determines how you perceive the world and what actions you take, how you act/react to situations and events, relationships with people, and other life forms.”  – Eckhart Tolle, modern day spiritual teacher

Misguided conditioning or the lack of relevant experience leads to misguided beliefs that leave an individual’s sense of self-identity suffering from negative emotion … frequently shame … as they feel ’empty’ of understanding.

After choosing to ingest the god-forbidden fruit of the Eden snake-promised all-knowing wisdom gifted to Eve and then Adam, when confronted by Christianity’s god Jehovah, they suffered emotional shame from being ’empty’ of understanding their nakedness. Fig Leaf Wisdom

HUMAN SUFFERING STEMS FROM MANKIND’S EMPTINESS IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE PRINCIPLES

Eric Hoffer’s wisdom, an American moral and social philosopher, earned him the 1983 Presidential Award of Freedom. In his quote, the “…something that is not there” is an individual’s conscious understanding of life’s unalterable relational life principles that give order to this reality’s ongoing change.

Eckhart Tolle teaches that “the primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but our thoughts about it. The personality is primarily an accumulation of mental conditioning … our lives fluctuate between occasional satisfaction and a lingering sense that something’s missing.”

Tolle’s “something’s missing” points to the same life truth principle as Eric Hoffer’s “emptiness” of understanding. The 2000-year-old quote from the Roman philosopher Epiticus demonstrates the timeless nature of this truth.

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Roman philosopher Epiticus

On the playing field of emptiness, the ego is formed to guard our worldview against what Eric Hoffer refers to as “our greatest pretenses” … what our fears produce … or the emotional embarrassment and shame of our ignorance demonstrated in our emptiness of understanding. Our egos will engender posturing social fronts to mask our ignorance and stage/showcase our importance to what we are unsure of.

An individual will either do the work to fledge/derive the applicable experiential wisdom to make conscious sense to better understand life’s relational truths from their abyss of emptiness of understanding or they will borrow someone else’s (religious or maybe cult logic theology) wisdom and have blind faith in the effectiveness of borrowing and trusting the outside source’s understanding of the gifted wisdom’s promised future and its path to their emotional balance (afterlife?) … emotional bliss … heavenly bliss.

SUFFERING’S NOT PREDETERMINED … IT’S CURABLE NOW … COMING IN PART 3

Wormhole to Self-Training Heavenly Bliss … Part 1  … Disney’s Inside Out 2 Recognizes Emotions

Wormhole to Self-Training Heavenly Bliss … Part 3 … Suffering’s Not Predetermined… It’s Curable Now

Wormhole to Self-Training Heavenly Bliss … Part 4 … 2 Types of Wisdom Shape the Sense of Self

Wormhole to Self-Training Heavenly Bliss … Part 5 … “The Way”

… for platform details … see Fig Leaf Wisdom/Hoosier Heaven