My page loading here over my phone is being a bit slow and glitchy, I was unable to quote, but what is Spiritual Masochism and how would I apply it or see it applied and how might it be enlightening?
I am used to the word masochism in relation to the pursuit of suffering or deliberate continuation of personal suffering in some form. I may be doing that in some way or it may appear as such by my focus on difficulties and the negatives in my writing here possibly as a sort of spiritual masochism, but in reality I'm not actually fond of or in approval of difficulties, major obstructions, or pain of any sort either psychological / emotional or physical or especially its deliberate pursuit, creation, or extension by people unless justified by some greater good after a limited period, like exercise maybe, but I feel even such things can be done in much more moderate ways without excess to get sufficient results without excess or ascetic sort of extremes.
I'd like to know more about the term Spiritual Masochism though.
I certainly don't prefer or pursue pain, or consider it a wise or good thing or one worthy of support or approval. I consider Evil to be synonymous pretty much with pain and inducing pain in any way, and that pain is not really due to anything ultimately except in every sense The One Power, who you and I may also call God or Allah, who "makes one laugh and cry" ( Qur'an 53:43 ) in my view directly by generating the experience or vision we see of us going through that moment by moment including the thoughts as part of the overall frames of experience it generates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism
