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- Pain & Suffering
- Unnecessary Suffering
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Primed to Suffer
- Suffering from Interdependence
- Acceptance Without Suffering
- Pain Without Suffering
- Getting the Most Out of NowSo much of our suffering in life seems to come from events in the past, worries about the future, things done or said by other people, that sometimes it’s hard to believe the Buddha when he says suffering comes from within, from what you’re doing right now. But as he points out, there are two kinds of suffering in the world: There …
- The Water in Your Cup… The Buddha lists them as thoughts involved with sensuality—in other words, your fascination with planning sensual pleasures; thoughts of ill will—hoping to see other people suffer; and thoughts of harmfulness, where you don’t simply wait for them to suffer on their own. You’re going to see if you can hurry up the suffering. All of those kinds of thinking, he …
- How Not to Suffer
- Point of Suffering, The
- How Not to Suffer
- No Need to Suffer
- Fabricating Around Pain… What are all beings doing? All beings are suffering. You’re not the only one who’s suffering. You don’t want to suffer, they don’t want to suffer. So you can feel some companionship. That’s an important thing to keep in mind. We’re all subject to aging, illness, and death. And you don’t want to carry any ill will …
- Sustenence for a Suffering Mind
- The Skill of Not Suffering
- In a World of Suffering
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