Our Spiritually-Practical Pain Reliever

By Michael Ketterhagen 

“… describ[ing] God as our inner guide, protector, provider and eternal companion … open[s] ourselves to her unconditional love and guidance.”
 -Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, commenting on Yoga Sutra 2.1
 
“All life is suffering [pain].
There is a cause of suffering.
Suffering can be stopped.
Following the 8-fold path will stop suffering ”
--Siddhartha Gauta ma Buddha, The Four Noble Truths
 
“That, [namely, disturbing, stupefying and distracting mental activities]
can be controlled through practice and non-attachment.”
-Patanjali, Yoga Sutra 1.12
 
 
Our Spiritually-Practical Pain Reliever

Pain and suffering are a constant in most people’s lives today, so says the Buddha.  Christianity calls sin the source of this pain and suffering.

In my journey to eliminate pain and suffering in my life, I learned that moving my pain and suffering to the spiritual level is a profound medicinal pain-killer.  We all have physical pain from time to time, but it is the mental pain and suffering, which manifests physically in our bodies as physical pain, that really causes us humans most of our suffering.  Sometimes we bury the suffering and try to numb it with certain pain killers, like food, alcohol, sugar, drugs or we just deny that we are in emotional turmoil.