Search results for: "Suffering"

  1. Page 16
  2. Goodness Comes from Heedfulness
     … They’re suffering, too, so why would you want to add to their suffering? What do you get out of their suffering? You learn to perceive that other people’s suffering is not helpful to you at all. Even when they’ve been bad to you, nasty to you, the idea of wanting them to see them get theirs doesn’t accomplish anything for … 
  3. Three Virtues for the Mind
     … Which means that when we’re suffering right now, we don’t have to continue to suffer. We can change the way we’re relating to a particular sensation, a particular idea, a particular state in the body or to conditions around us. We can take them and turn them into a lot of suffering, or we can turn them into a lot of … 
  4. Right View Comes First
     … That’s the suffering. Suffering is not something that you’re passively receiving. You’re actually doing the action that constitutes suffering. Think about that. And why do you do that? Because of craving: either craving for sensuality, craving for a state of becoming, or craving to obliterate some state of becoming you already have. Buddha would then explain that this craving can be … 
  5. To Know the Buddha
     … And the activity itself is suffering, stress. We do these things for the sake of happiness—we cling to them, and yet they cause suffering. In fact, the clinging and the doing is suffering in and of itself—in the same way that the doing of a skill is happy. This is why the discernment that the Buddha taught may start with the words … 
  6. Your Duty Lies Right Here
     … comprehending suffering, abandoning its cause, realizing its cessation by developing the path. So when something comes up in the mind, you have to ask yourself, “Is this an instance of suffering, is this the cause of suffering, or is this part of the path that I should be developing?” If you simply sit and watch things coming and going, you’re missing an important … 
  7. Maintaining Goodwill
     … That’s the best use for this concentration, because when you stop creating suffering for yourself, you don’t feel inclined to create suffering for anybody else. The reason we make life miserable for other people is because we feel threatened, along with this attitude: “As long as I’m suffering, let everybody else suffer too.” Or: “If I’m suffering, I don’t … 
  8. Up for the Challenge
     … First, you should try to comprehend suffering, which means seeing that suffering is in the act of clinging to form, feeling, perceptions, thought fabrications, consciousness. You want to see yourself suffering in the act of clinging itself. Sometimes we’re told that we suffer because we cling to impermanent things. But it’s possible to cling even to permanent things and still suffer. You … 
  9. The Language of the Heart (2)
     … that we’re here not to practice in line with Western customs or Thai customs or anybody’s customs, except for the customs of the noble ones, because the noble ones are the ones who’ve found how to put an end to suffering. They’ve understood their minds and hearts in a way that allows them to bring suffering to an end. What … 
  10. Admirable in the Beginning, Middle, & End
     … People suffer. The Buddha gives an analysis to show that the suffering comes from within—which means that you’re in a position to change what it is that’s causing the suffering. There are so many people who say that the Dhamma is pessimistic because it focuses on suffering, but that’s not the case at all. The whole point is that you … 
  11. Anybody Home?
     … When you think about everybody’s suffering, why pile more suffering on other people who are already suffering? Why pile extra suffering on yourself, since relationships are marked by so much suffering? That’s the first stage in dealing with grief. Ultimately, the Buddha says, you want to go from what he calls householder grief—the grief of not getting what you want—to … 
  12. Choosing to Believe in Your Choices
     … As the Buddha said, suffering is not inevitable. Even though there is aging, he said there is a skill to learn how not to suffer from aging. There’s a skill to learn how not to suffer from illness. There’s a skill to learn how not to suffer from dying. And as with any other good skill out there in the world, when … 
  13. Pain & Suffering
  14. Unnecessary Suffering
  15. Potentials Past & Present
     … Compassion is connected to goodwill, in the sense that if you see somebody suffering or creating the causes for suffering, your attitude is, “How can we help them relieve their suffering? How can we put an end to that suffering? If they’re doing something that’s going to be unskillful, how can we stop them or get them to be willing to stop … 
  16. Free from Animosity
     … That’s the suffering. We feed on our suffering. That’s what’s so ironic in the way that the Buddha sees suffering: The things that we feed on, the things that we like, the things we hold on to, are the things that are causing us to suffer. And the way we hold on, of course, is that we keep repeating them again … 
  17. The Noble Truths of the Breath
     … The Buddha’s main point in teaching the four noble truths is pointing out that the suffering that weighs down the mind is the suffering we impose on ourselves. It’s not the things that the people do outside. They may do horrible things, but we don’t have to suffer from them. When we grab onto certain ideas, even just certain ways of … 
  18. Samvega First
     … And there’s always going to be suffering that follows on the craving. That was one of the Buddha’s main discoveries, that any craving that leads to becoming is going to entail suffering. Becoming is a process that happens in the mind all the time. You have a world appearing in your imagination. Sometimes the desire comes first and sometimes the world appears … 
  19. Primed to Suffer
  20. Suffering from Interdependence
  21. Acceptance Without Suffering
  22. Load next page...