Thread: Let's talk about our polygamist spouse!

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

I'm not sure exactly what you define as "evil"

Yeah, I was very broad with the word, I was including anything considered bad.

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

I think submitting is more likely to free us from suffering than fighting. I guess it could be like a peaceful protest, if you want to think of it in those terms, but that still sounds like there's an enemy involved. I have found that my pain can only be transmuted into something peaceful when I stop resisting and practice mindful acceptance. I think that feeling a sense of injustice or anger about a situation only allows the pain to feed on itself, and puts us in a position that feels very powerless and hopeless.

Hmm... I think I agree with this. But I think maybe there's an emotion which combines both "anger" and "peacefulness" homogeneously, like a peaceful anger. I think it would feel like having your sympathetic pathway turned on (like during exercise or a high adrenaline moment) while being happy in the inside, although you are confronting something bad. Maybe this could be like people playing paintball. Where they know they must shoot someone else and not get shot but the whole things is just a game and enjoyable.

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

I'm certainly not immune to pain though; it's easy to become unconsciously absorbed in all the things you mentioned above, and I have a lot of learning to do yet.

As all of us