Our Peace Dissolves Our Sorrow

A man, who muses over why what’s being taught at the treat isn’t in the ‘manual of life’, asks about the relationship between resting in peace and holding space for (psychological) pain. Is it a good thing to hold in peace while in severe pain? Does this peace change the pain over time, or is it there with you throughout life? Rupert suggests that the normal trajectory is that once we’ve traced our way back to the experience of being, the first quality we notice is peace, which can be more neutral than what we would call ‘happy’. Sorrow can still exist in the foreground, but we can feel the peace behind it. In time, that peace dissolves our sorrow. As the sorrow dissolves, the quality of quiet joy emerges. Then, the third quality – love; what we feel in relation to others, the sense of shared being – becomes evident. So, holding the space for sorrow is soaking your sorrow in the ocean of being. Eventually, our mind must be able to make the statement to our sorrow on behalf our being, ‘you can stay as long as you like’.

From event 20 April - 20 May, 2024 Seven-Day Meditation Retreat at Mandali – 20 to 27 April 2024

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