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  2. 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 … 
  3. Sustenence for a Suffering Mind
  4. The Skill of Not Suffering
  5. In a World of Suffering
  6. 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 … 
  7. Compassionate Duties
     … The Buddha never asked people before he taught them the end of suffering, “Do you deserve to suffer or not?” Some people seem to think that they deserve to suffer, but that was never a question for the Buddha. His approach was: If you’re suffering, here’s the way out. After all, we’ve all done things in the past that are pretty … 
  8. Right View
     … First is the truth of suffering or stress; dukkha is the Pali term. Sometimes we’re told that the first truth is that “life is suffering” or “everything is suffering,” but that’s not the case. The Buddha basically said that “there is suffering.” It’s one of four things you’re going to encounter in life that you should pay attention to. You … 
  9. What’s Constant, What’s Not
    The Pali term anicca is often translated as “impermanent.” And I’ve had people ask me, “The Buddha says that if things are impermanent, they’re stressful, they’re suffering, but is that always the case? The fact that an illness is impermanent, that’s good. The fact that a bad situation is impermanent, that’s good, too. So why is impermanence necessarily associated … 
  10. You Don't Have to Suffer
  11. You Can Choose Not to Suffer
  12. Training the Mind Not to Suffer
  13. In Line with the Dhamma
     … Craving is always causing suffering. Ignorance is always causing suffering.” It’s happening all the time, but the reason we don’t see it is because we’re more content with our illusions—but that means also that we’re content with the suffering they cause. We have to learn how to put these two facts together, and realize it’s time to wake … 
  14. Approaching the four noble truths
     … taking the teachings, seeing how they apply to this questions of “Why am I suffering? How am I suffering? What exactly is my suffering? And how can I put an end to it?” And being really focused on what you’re doing. If you bring that attitude, that’s when you’re wise and you listen to the teachings in the wisest way. If … 
  15. The Four Noble Truths
     … Instead of saying, “I’m suffering, I’m suffering,” just look, “Okay, where is the suffering and what’s actually causing it?” Look in terms of cause and effect. And do what you can to get the “I” out of there, so that you can look purely in terms of what you’re doing, what the results are. This is why, when you meditate … 
  16. Taking Risks
     … And you look at all the things that cause us suffering in life and they really are bewildering. It’s enough to drive you crazy. Fortunately, we have people who’ve been through this before us, and they can not only help to relieve some of our sufferings but can also explain why they’re caused so we can begin to explore on our … 
  17. Stake Out
     … There’s a lot of suffering that you’re creating out of nothing, and the suffering is real. I was listening to someone recently talking about how he was in dialogue with a monk who had been studying some Mahayana texts. At first he felt really offended by those texts, because they were saying suffering isn’t real. Suffering doesn’t exist, the cause … 
  18. In the Context of the Path
     … There’s the perception of inconstancy, the perception of stress or suffering, and the perception of not-self. These perceptions play a role in two of the duties of the four noble truths: the duty to comprehend suffering and the duty to abandon its cause. What is suffering? The Buddha gives a list. There’s the suffering of birth, aging, and death. The suffering … 
  19. Why Mindfulness
     … We’re here to train the mind, to understand how the mind creates suffering for itself, and how it can learn not to create suffering. Yet all of a sudden, we find ourselves running restaurant reviews through the mind, planning for tomorrow. Memories of childhood come through and you say, “Boy, I haven’t thought of that in a long time. Let’s look … 
  20. Victory
     … Get to know this area really well, because your lack of skill in dealing with it is what causes the suffering. But that lack of skill can be turned into skill if you bring the right knowledge. When the four noble truths talk about suffering, they’re talking about this suffering, the suffering that’s caused from within. So explore this area. Like the … 
  21. Antidotes to Craving
     … the resentments, the feuds, the desires for revenge.” So poor people suffer the way poor people suffer. Rich people suffer the way rich people suffer. Devas have their suffering. Everywhere you can go, there’s going to be suffering. That chant we have on the five recollections: It’s only a part of the sutta. The other part of the sutta says, “It’s … 
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