It Is Fixation That Causes Suffering

When we are fixated, we fear change, and that causes us suffering. If we’ve invested our entire existence on a one-sided view, we are reluctant to give it up, or even to see that there are other possibilities. Those possibilities can appear to be our enemy; fixation makes us reactive.

If we are not empathetic to change, we won’t feel balanced and in control, never experiencing the rawness and ‘uncomfortability’ of fresh light – uncomfortable because it places us in the new territory of no man’s land. Becoming familiar with no man’s land brings new insights as life isn’t what we think.

The path to understanding suffering is to experience that which is aware of this so-called suffering, which is merely a state of mind. Without understanding, there is no escape.

If we are not willing to see all sides, we are fixed.
In seeing all sides, we cannot fixate, but just wonder how the sides came about 🙂

There is only seeing,
but many ways of interpreting what is seen.

Can we be fixated about pure consciousness? Yes, fixated about the words.
On investigation, the presence of awareness – which is consciousness – tells us everything we need to know.