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2005-01-20 01:50
Understanding is action
A small boy came running into his home and, huffing and perspiring, told his mother, "A lion has been following me! But I was not afraid."
The mother said, "Lion? In the middle of the city? I have told you a thousand times: Don't exaggerate. Where is the lion?"
He said, "He is standing outside the door."
The mother went to the door; a small dog was standing there.
The boy said, "Yes, this is the lion."
The mother said, "You know perfectly this is a dog."
He said, "I know, but when you are telling a story, and you say a small dog was following you, and you were not afraid -- that does not fit. A lion is needed. And as far as exaggeration is concerned, you are telling me that you have told me one thousand times not to exaggerate. You are exaggerating yourself."
Everybody is making himself look, in every possible way, like somebody special.
You are talking about your suffering and somebody says, "It is nothing." You will be hurt, you will not like this response. You were telling such a great story; you were opening your wounds and that man said, "This is nothing. You should know my suffering."
Suffering also becomes a support to your ego. A man without suffering, without pain, without any misery -- how can he manage his ego? He won't have any props for the ego.
You cannot get rid of your miseries for the simple reason that you don't have anything else to cling to. You will be empty -- and nobody wants to be empty. People befool themselves in every possible way.

Knowing perfectly well and still continuing to suffer, to be miserable -- no, it is not possible. Either you don't know or you cannot suffer. You cannot be allowed both together: knowing perfectly well and still suffering.
It may be knowledge.
That's not how it happens.
In understanding is the very dropping.
There is no action after understanding.
Understanding is the action itself.

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19:15 05.02.2005
Ich unterscheide zwischen Mit-Leid und Mitgefühl.
Mitleid ist Mitgefühl ohne Durchblick.
Mitgefühl ist Mitleid mit Durchblick,
also Empathie ohne Leid, denn geteiltes Leid ist doppeltes Leid.
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17:56 20.01.2005
Vielleicht versteh ich dich ja jetzt falsch...
Aber was ist mit Mit-Leid? Mitgefühl? Da leidet man auch, obwohl man den Durchblick hat...
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