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LIFES POINT OF VIEW Change is pain. Suffering is pain. So suffering is change. The smashing of the dropped glass is nothing more than what would be its cry of pain if it were conscious. Man imagines, because he has a conscious frontal feeling, a consciousness inanimate things do not enjoy, that pain is felt only by him and the animals. But we have to look at life from the total aspect if we are going to understand it, not from the narrow individual one. We have to look at what happens to the individual I from lifes point of view. We cannot expect to see this tremendous totality from the limited interest of a personal self. Looking at it that way, change is pain. The motor-car tyre that screeches as it rounds a corner is in pain. The difference is that it does not have what we call a sensitivity to pain, an apparent consciousness. Wherever there is change, there is friction, and there is pain. What is this pain? Obviously from the analogy of the tyre it accompanies a changing of direction. Man, as mind, always wants to go in a straight line. But the fact is that lifes direction is elliptical, and that is why we say mind is our greatest enemy. Mind always struggles against the fact of change - like mans morality which in straightline-thinking says it is wrong to kill. And then, when man finds himself about to be killed, suddenly it is acceptable to kill in self-defence. And then he gets a fit of conscience because it is wrong to kill. The pain of conscience is no different to the pain of the whip on the bullocks side, saying go the other way, change direction. In the beginning the bullock, and man, both need quite a lash to turn them in the other direction. But after a while, if the man is intelligent, he begins to realise the pain is only there while he refuses to yield. When he is headed in the right direction, when his attitude is right again, he always finds the exciting new - even if the pain has killed him. Extract from the Barry Long book title: Wisdom and where to find it (pp 68-69)

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