Deflating Pain-Body

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus

Eckhart Tolle talks about pain-bodies in his books; the idea being that there is hurt, a trauma, a particular karma that needs to come to the surface anyhow, we only have the choice what meaning we attach to it. When I read Albert Camus’ quote I was surprised to see that he seemed to have a similar fatalistic point of view. Ideally, we could burst the pain body without replaying it endlessly in our mind by choosing convenient scape goats in our imagination. Instead we should use the pain in a good way, broken love relationships, broken friendships, or unfortunate endings to business connections. We feel the pain, we remember the positive attributes of the people who once meant so much to us, and then we move on. Bit by bit, the pain body deflates into nothingness and karmic bonds disentangle.

If we need to suffer anyway, it might as well be about a lost love.