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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. Pain & Suffering
  8. Unnecessary Suffering
  9. Primed to Suffer
  10. Suffering from Interdependence
  11. Acceptance Without Suffering
  12. Pain Without Suffering
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. 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 … 
  17. Getting the Most Out of Now
    So 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 … 
  18. How Not to Suffer
  19. Point of Suffering, The
  20. How Not to Suffer
  21. No Need to Suffer
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