Dear yoda428:

I disagree with Ekhart whose work I read before, even studied thoroughly, but did not SEE at the time its folly. Here is one sentence he wrote: “Once the pain body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator.”

He talks about the pain that lingers (in our brain) as an Entity that has its own need and want- to continue to exist. This is a twisting of the truth. The pain is not an entity, it is an emotion that persists because it has a message that wasn’t heard. It lets us know we were hurt and need to attend to that hurt, do something about it. It is not an ENTITY to feed or to starve, it is to honor as an energy-in-motion that is stuck because we didn’t acknowledge and did not process it.

Pain doesn’t take you over and you need to fight its conquering ambitions- it is in its very value a helpful thing, something invisible indeed that gives us INFORMATION. How we lost the way of accessing this information that is easily accessible to animals and to babies- that is a human tragedy.

anita