subtle or gross

Subtle or Gross

pleasure/pain a lie
calling for man
to eventually die
as proof of
separation's reality
yet there can
be no fatality
since pleasure is pain
and pain is pleasure
with different name

in NOW

all is One
the game is done
we are home
no more alone

michael

"Sin shifts from pain to pleasure, and again to pain. For either witness is
the same, and carries but one message: "You are here, within this body, and
you can be hurt. You can have pleasure, too, but only at the cost of pain."
These witnesses are joined by many more. Each one seems different because it
has a different name, and so it seems to answer to a different sound. Except
for this, the witnesses of sin are all alike. Call pleasure pain, and it
will hurt. Call pain a pleasure, and the pain behind the pleasure will be
felt no more. Sin's witnesses but shift from name to name, as one steps
forward and another back. Yet which is foremost makes no difference. Sin's
witnesses hear but the call of death." (T-27.VI.2)