Pain and pleasure both belong
to the body, it is a package deal.
Once you take a body, you will
experience all the interrelated
opposites and contrasts of the
dance we call life. But this does not
mean you automatically suffer just
because the body is there. Identity
amplifies suffering. In impartial
and impersonal observation of
the body-mind functioning, pain is
perceived as a natural phenomenon.
Non-personal experiencing
is ‘itself’ freedom.

In the realm of sentient experience,
suffering is unavoidable. Where
there is strong psychological
and physical identity, there
is proportionate suffering – it
is the tax for having a body!

Mooji

Identification with this ‘I’ [with an identity] is the root of suffering. When you have a preference for a certain kind of experience, you suffer. When you have a preference for who you should learn from, you suffer. When you are constantly interpreting how things are or how they should be, what you deserve and what you do not deserve, you suffer. Wherever there is pride, attachment, judgement and desire, there is suffering. When we awaken from ignorance into our true nature, suffering is absent.

Mooji

Don’t belittle yourself nor raise yourself high.
Don’t say who you are, for you don’t know even that.
Just remain empty of identity and intention.
Keep quiet.
Let the Truth reveal who you are.
~ Mooji