21/11/2025
Certain feelings can be unpleasant — and yes, uncomfortable.
But notice how the mind immediately declares that unpleasant feelings are a problem.
It insists, “This bad feeling shouldn’t be here.”
It decides, “This feeling is wrong, and it should not exist.”
This is resistance.
And it is from resistance that suffering is born.
Begin to see that unpleasant feelings themselves are not suffering.
It is the mind’s belief — this shouldn’t be here — that creates the suffering.
So start loosening your belief in the mind’s judgments, stories, and conclusions about your feelings and about everything else.
Thoughts are simply labels, opinions, and interpretations.
You don’t have to identify with them, and you don’t need to let them limit you.
They are filters you can choose to stop looking through.
When you no longer resist, you become open to experiencing even uncomfortable emotions without suffering.
The unpleasant is just another flavor of life — no less valid, no less valuable than the pleasant.
Both pleasant and unpleasant experiences rise and fall.
They add nothing to you, and they take nothing from you.
You are the unchanging awareness in which all experiences — comfortable or not — appear and disappear.
Recognizing this is the beginning of unconditional existence, your true nature, from which you can embrace both the pleasant and the unpleasant with equal spaciousness.
