The Road Less Travelled: Renunciation and Rebirth
Browsing through the bookshelf and once again picking the book — ‘The Road Less Travelled’ by M. Scott Peck I find that a bookmark is placed on the section on Renunciation and Rebirth. I read through and decide to jot some takeaways…
…Whether or not we are willing to entertain seriously the possibility of some kind of rebirth happening simultaneously after death, it is abundantly clear that this lifetime is a series of simultaneous deaths and births…
“Throughout the whole life one must continue to learn to live, throughout life one must learn to die” (Quoted in the Sane Society, 1955).
This raises the question of whether it is possible to become free from emotional pain and the answer is both an yes and a no. “Yes”, when suffering is accepted, it ceases to be suffering; “No” because there is vacuum of competence in the world.
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, higher levels of consciousness cannot be achieved. Discipline has been defined s the system of techniques of dealing constructively with the issue of problem solving instead of avoiding pain. The technique includes responsibility, dedication, balancing etc.
Other reads:
https://deepikapathak.medium.com/many-lives-many-masters-56cb171438bf
