They are not there.
This is not a trick or an example of denial.
It's a clue.
Aside from thought, there is no self and no suffering.
What we are is beyond or prior to thought.?
We are that in
which thought arises and passes away with its fantasies of self and suffering.
I was thinking today
about animals and they manage just fine without symbols and concepts. And they
don't seem to get that hung up on pain either.
The only knowing of self is actually
"nothingness".
All that you may think you are but really aren't...keeps you
reeling under all kinds of effects, and sufferings!!! Neither this....nor
that!! or.....
Not this!
Not this!!.....
Neti! Neti! Neti!!
Knowledge is the mindful impetus of a suffering being.
The
movement of be to being, present and future, and space and time; all arise in
the thought that we can creatively or conceptually know the unknown.
Thought is
not truth because it changes, but it becomes the subjective reality upon which
we place our sense of value.
ps/smoh