Affliction is the most harmful poison for life, affliction is my life partner and I have always fought with it as if it were a dragon. We spend a lot of time complaining about life and what it doesn’t give us. Then one day you have all the time you want, you can carry out your projects, create your dreams, and instead you freeze as if struck by a poison, your affliction.
The affliction is subtle and often unclear to those affected by it
Someone defines it, as a set of qualities, and divides it into
Ignorance
Illusion
Attachment
Repulsion
Attachment to life and strong fear of death.
Psychologically these disordered and misdirected qualities create anxiety, fears, and phobias, up to the point of generating real pathologies. The main problem of the human being is ignorance, that is, the lack of metaphysical knowledge.
Our rational mind makes us believe that everything that exists is limited to our little world. To the needs of our ego and the greedy needs of the personality, to which the illusion is connected and nourished.
If we are immersed in the needs of the personality, we delude ourselves that we are just our physical body, a mixture of emotions and a tangle of neurons. Nothing more harmful and poisonous to our health. The more we feel part of a whole, the more our compassion grows, empathy unites and the heart opens without fear.
If the heart opens, calm, strong, and radiant, we are not overwhelmed by attachments, possession, passion, and attraction that do not undermine our sense of identity. While if we want to be loved at all costs by everyone, if our serenity is someone else’s responsibility, we will always be unhappy.
The same thing is true, although obviously in the opposite way, for the energy of repulsion, if we are centered, we love and include, we do not feel repulsion.
Finally, we all have a great fear of death and what comes next. But this too is a limitation, a need of the rational mind to control life and keep it to itself.
Everything in the phenomenal world is relative and everything is impermanent, so why bother?
They are forces, and these forces together are strong, they create affliction, a state of stillness that produces rot in our lives.
However, we can impress our desire to live and serve, as equal and opposite energy to this corrosive stasis. We can create for ourselves a new antidote to the poison of affliction at any time and consciously create something useful for us and those around us.
Overcoming Affliction Prayer
Holy Virgin, the comfort of the afflicted and mother of consolation,
to you, we cry from the depths of our tribulations.
Have pity on us poor unhappy people who ask you for it.
O Mary, this is the time to show, how right the name is,
with which we invoke our mother.
Did you forget those last words of your Jesus from the Cross,
that dying voice, those extreme sighs,
with whom did he hand us over to you as children?
O dear Mother hears the groan of us poor sinners yes,
but your children. If you do not console us,
who can we ask for help?
You must therefore speak of us to your Jesus with that love
that always wins it.
In your womb, we lay our tears
we await our consolation from you
and even when we knew that you denied it to us,
we will still remain at your feet screaming
Mother, console us, that we are your children.
