Thanks Lal:
As you see, I had come across the desana on suffering probably as you were writing your reply.
‘One needs to keep reading relevant posts (AND KEEP CONTEMPLATING, not just reading)’ I find I am spending much more time contemplating, even when I am engaged in other matters, outdoors or indoors.
One thing that I was reminded of a few days ago: I heard the sms bleep on my mobile and at once SENSED ‘this is someone who does not text me often’.It turned out to be a woman from France whom I had met about 10 years ago and with whom there is no contact for long stretches of time, sometimes years. Someone she was attached to and who I too had met had died. About 8 years ago she sms’d me ‘out of the blue’ asking whether I was alright, and something HAD just happened to me ( I cannot recall what for sure). That is, now SHE had the sensation of an event having to do with me. In the second case I had it (because I felt too that probably it was not good news).
Where do these hunches come from? What is the source? Is it the gandhabba of the other sending a message, or one’s own, or some ‘one’ else?
thank you
y not