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We share a common biology and from this, the commonness of our most inner experience can be inferred. Because in terms of physical structure and physiological function we all show an essential sameness, our subjective consciousness can be expected to reflect it as well.
Thus, the range of human capacity for joy or pain should not vary from
individual to individual to a greater degree than do the physical and chemical
states of their tissues. Hence basis for empathy.
A Mind that is exclusively dedicated to the service of the physical-self represents one extreme; a Mind totally preoccupied with the world outside of the physical plane upon which rests its biological survival represents the other. A state of balance and health results when no essential difference is perceived between the Self and the rest of Existence.
To begin with, the child's Mind properly identifies with all Existence.
It acknowledges the whole as well as its parts, so it reflects its true
and lasting value. Its focus is uniformly diffused throughout. The experience
of pain distorts this initial uniformity of focus. It forces the Mind to
limit itself to the factors of immediate relevance for the biological well-being
of the body.
We all are subject to PHYSICAL PAIN! We let it become an imperative. As a rule, quite early in life we become stamped by PAIN and remain its captive from then on. Directly or indirectly, we let pain figure in as a prominent factor in all endeavor. We anticipate it, we flee from it, we try to avoid it. We are only partly successful.
To protect ourselves we lower our sensitivity: we become dull. Thus, we remain in numbness until we come to recognize the NECESSITY OF PAIN, and willingly accept it when due. Growth resumes when the inevitability of pain for the purpose of any Existence becomes a part of self-evident knowledge.
As long as avoidance of pain remains our chief motivation we are fundamentally animals. Unless we overcome this barrier we can not become truly self-directed!
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