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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. You Don't Have to Suffer
  5. You Can Choose Not to Suffer
  6. Training the Mind Not to Suffer
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. Samvega
     … And again, it’s not that we’re going to have to suffer in order to get out. You’re sitting here with the pain, the question should be, “Okay, why is there suffering?” Remember that the Buddha says it’s not necessary. Remember that the suffering of the four noble truths and the suffering or stress in the three characteristics are two different … 
  17. The Dualistic Path
    The Buddha once said that all he taught was suffering and the end of suffering—or you can translate it as stress and the end of stress. Those are two things right there. And it’s an important distinction to keep in mind, because everything else in the Dhammais based on that distinction. You can say that it’s dualistic, but it’s dualistic … 
  18. We All Start with an Impure Heart
     … He taught the end of suffering for all beings, and he didn’t ask them ahead of time, “Is your motive for coming here pure?” Or, “The suffering that you’re suffering from, is it something that you deserved?” He could have said that, based on your passed kamma, you deserve to suffer, so he could just leave you there. But he never said … 
  19. Dedicating Goodness, Spreading Goodwill
     … But for the happiness to be true, you have to look squarely at suffering, to see what the mind is doing. Because both happiness and suffering, in the Buddha’s analysis, are things that you do. Usually when we’re suffering we think that we’re on the receiving end of something bad. That may be the case. There are a lot of bad … 
  20. Tranquility & Insight in Tandem
    The Buddha said he taught two things, suffering and the end of suffering, or in other terms, stress and the end of stress. That’s why we’re here. In fact, that’s what all the teachings really are all about, understanding suffering and stress, and then doing what we can to put an end to it. With each of the four noble truths … 
  21. Strategic Thinking
     … He takes elements out of the first two noble truths—suffering and the cause of suffering—and puts them to use in the path to the end of suffering. Remember that suffering, as he said, when you boil it down to its essence, is five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perception, fabrications, and consciousness as they’re clung to. The cause of suffering is craving … 
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