Is pain the breaking of the shell that encloses our understanding ?

Question

Is pain the breaking of the shell that encloses our understanding ?

Answer 1

   Without rain the flower dies...too much...same results.

Answer 2

Yes.

Answer 3

I would say that the breaking of the shell that encloses our understanding is painful... However, not all pain is the breaking of that shell. It can sometimes hurt just as much to understand something.

Answer 4

I find increased understanding to be blissful. Definitely no pain.

Answer 5

ummm........yeah if you say so!

Answer 6

I think so, but under certain circumstances and conditions. I am a follower of the Leibniz¨thinking, and I think the soul (mónada,  I dont know how is written in english, perhaps "monad"), is in a constant flow having new perceptions, to be able to express the universe whith clarity, broading its clear zone or area, using new perceptions through the life, and becoming dark o confused areas in clearer zones.

According to this, the pain is a new perception, and could break the shell that encloses our understanding, but when the soul is ready for seeing that new perception and catching the idea that was dark before. If the soul is not ready, the pain will not break the shell, and therefore the pain could come back and try the same change, and so forth until the soul gets a clear idea of that perception, and thus advance to a higher perceptions, with or without pain. Our goul is breaking the shell without pain, but we need to become aware that our mision in life is to know the reality of the universe and to reach the unity.  

Answer 7

The pain many times can not be expressed in a normal way so we act in different ways...

I would say that the understanding dies in front of a big pain, it is so big the emotion we have inside that it is difficult to act and to think in a reasonable way...

Maybe the emotions are stornger than the real feelings, the istant emotions such as happiness and pain are stronger thanhatred or love, thats why they drive us crazy and to act in an unsual way

Answer 8

Yep, yep, yes indeedy.  Or you could say that pain results from holding on to beliefs and ways of perceiving that are no longer useful.  When we do that, it's a physical holding on, too; we are holding ourselves physically in a certain way that is an embodiment of our current level of understanding.  When we are stimulated by an energy that comes from a more expanded level, we feel it as pain if we keep holding ourselves in that same way; but if we open ourselves up to it a little, we feel the energy as pleasure.

Answer 9

i guess yes but it can be  enjoyable to get out of the shell