(Not a poem....)
Please excuse me... May I think aloud with you? I want to ponder....
These are meandering thoughts from the session with my psych this morning.....
.... That I have actually had a very Buddhist approach to my depression all my life.... but I have been stuck in a rut of getting sidetracked at the 4th truth. I have always recognised the 1st truth - that there is suffering.... and the 2nd truth that suffering has a cause..... and the 3rd truth that there can be an end to suffering.....
.... but then at the 4th truth (the way out of suffering) my mind has always gone "The only way to end the suffering is to end my life"!!!.... and so I have always fallen into the trap of being tempted to suicide.
Instead I must think about the 8 Paths that flow from the 4th truth. The 8 paths will teach me how to manage the suffering in a healthy way.
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