What is ‘Pain’?

Aren’t I supposed to be bored trying to cling onto this pain?

Can’t I see that the pain is nothing but a heavy baggage that should be dropped at the first instant?

Can’t I see that the greater the pain, the greater is the resistance to the idea of change?

Can’t I see that the pain is in my head and it is not out there?

Can’t I see that the pain is my own imagination and that I need to work on my own imagination?

Can’t I see that guilt or regret or any kind of complex is just not required to move on?

Can’t I see that it wasn’t personal at all!

Can’t I see that I am not entirely responsible for a situation?

Can’t I see that the situation is what it is…I can decide its relationship to me?

Can’t I see that the past is over. A thought comes and goes. It ends at that.

Can’t I see that a thought is yet to come. When it comes, it comes, it stays and it goes. Allow its passage.

Thoughts are like continuous flow of water or the wind. They keep coming and they keep going. Why they come, we don’t know. But they will come. Why they go, we don’t know, but they will go. In between coming and going, ‘we’ as a phenomenon, are situated. It is upto us how we ride through the flow of thoughts. Just like water, wind, sun….thoughts affect us.

What are thoughts? So abstract, but so real! Observe the thoughts. Observe. That is what is required. Nothing more, nothing else.