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  2. Acceptance Isn’t the Issue
     … After all, when the Buddha talked about suffering, he didn’t say life was suffering. He just pointed out that there is suffering in clinging and that it’s possible to stop that suffering and to find the ultimate happiness. And the happiness the Buddha taught is not only at the end of the path, it’s all along the way. You can enjoy … 
  3. Comprehending Pain
     … The third noble truth is the cessation of suffering or stress. The first knowledge is knowing that the cessation of suffering equals dispassion for those three kinds of craving. In other words, you attack the problem at the cause. The duty here is to realize this: What would be to have all stress and suffering end? Then finally you realize you have fully realized … 
  4. The Burning House
     … Because if you don’t get the right perspective on the present moment, there can be a lot of suffering. Even just trying to be right here in the present moment—if you haven’t learned how to master the present moment—can entail a lot of suffering right here. There’s the suffering of the aggregates, there’s the suffering of clinging and … 
  5. Solo Practice
     … And when you see that it’s creating suffering and that the suffering is unnecessary, that there are other things you can do to react to that particular set of circumstances, then that particular cause of suffering gets dropped. You don’t have to tell it to let gfo. As long as you feel that you have to do things a particular way, that … 
  6. The Perfection of Freedom
     … On top of that, there are the limitations each of us suffers from, in terms of our knowledge, our wealth, our energy, our health, our life span. The world seems be closing in all the time. When you have a chance to step back a little bit and not be totally concerned with your own suffering, you begin to see other people’s suffering … 
  7. One Thing at a Time
     … As the Buddha said, the mind is what creates the problem of suffering to begin with. You can think of all the things in the world that you might be suffering from—what other people have done, what other people have said—but the Buddha says that those are not the real cause of suffering. The real cause lies inside. Even before we see … 
  8. The Path of Action
     … And he realized that if there was going to be an end to suffering, he would have to change them. So he said, if the end of suffering is possible, then the possibility of changing the way you act is possible, the possibility of looking at what you do and thinking of different ways of doing it has to be possible. And so, acting … 
  9. What Are You Taking into the Future?
     … People can direct their entire lives on ideas that are formulated in ignorance and lead to nothing but suffering and more and more and more suffering. Or they can learn how to take apart the present moment and see where the mind lies to itself, where it’s being true to itself, and carry that knowledge into the future. At the very least, it … 
  10. Unsentimental Goodwill
     … Then ask yourself, “What would you gain from this person’s suffering?” And part of you may say, “Well, they deserve to suffer.” The Buddha never says anything about people deserving to suffer or not deserving to suffer. He simply speaks in terms of actions that lead to suffering and actions that lead to happiness. Everybody’s mix of actions is very complex. And … 
  11. Action & Result
     … How do you develop the path? How do you do the duties of the four noble truths? How do you comprehend suffering to the point where you have no more passion for it? We don’t usually like to think that we have passion for suffering. But after all, how is suffering defined? It’s the clinging-aggregates. You cling to things because you … 
  12. To Make Suffering Crumble
     … As he analyzed the problem of suffering, he came down basically to something that’s not immediately intuitive. First he gave examples: There’s the suffering of aging, illness, and death; there’s the suffering of pain, distress, despair. Those things we’re familiar with. But then he said what they all have in common is the act of clinging to five aggregates. This … 
  13. Life Well Lived
     … Now, there is a certain amount of suffering involved in the path to the end of suffering. It’s not comfortable sitting here cross-legged for hours on end. It’s not easy to fight against your desires and periods of anger. But that kind of suffering is worthwhile because it leads to an end of suffering. Most suffering just goes nowhere, just gets … 
  14. Light Merit
     … that whatever’s coming up in the present moment, you don’t have to suffer from it if you have the right attitude. If you have the right perceptions, the right insights into what’s going on, you can release yourself from that suffering. Even if it’s just a temporary release, it’s an important lesson, an important skill, so that whatever comes … 
  15. The Right Piece in the Right Puzzle
     … the truth of suffering, which is clinging; the truth of the origination of suffering, which is craving; the truth of the cessation of suffering, which is dispassion for that craving. And then there’s the truth of the path of practice that leads to the cessation of suffering, which is the noble eightfold path. In that sense, the craving is the unskillful action that … 
  16. Fear & Insecurity
     … They came to the conclusion that Buddhism was all about suffering, suffering, suffering, suffering, and it seemed pessimistic to their eyes. But when they went over there, the Thais, they discovered, were very happy. And their assumption was, “These people don’t understand their own religion.” Well, of course, it was the social scientists who didn’t understand the religion. There’s a sense … 
  17. Clinging & Feeding
    When the Buddha defined suffering or stress in the four noble truths, he gave lots of examples and then summarized them all as the five clinging-aggregates. Notice he didn’t say five aggregates. It’s the clinging-aggregates that are suffering. It’s because we cling to them that the mind suffers. The aggregates may have stress simply in the fact they arise … 
  18. Lean into the Present
     … The ease helps, but we’re here for the sake of seeing how the mind creates suffering out of things it doesn’t have to suffer over. There can be pain in the body, but the mind doesn’t have to suffer from the pain. There can be crazy thoughts going through the mind, but the mind doesn’t have to suffer from them … 
  19. Unlimited Mind, Limited Resources
     … You have to be able not to suffer from that. Ajaan Fuang once commented that goodwill without equanimity is a source of suffering. So try to get good at all four of the brahmaviharas, so that instead of causing you suffering, they can give energy to your practice and a sense of spaciousness to the mind.
  20. What Should & Shouldn’t Be Done
     … two courses of action, one course leading to suffering, another course leading to the end of suffering. And here again, he recommends that you abandon the cause of suffering and that you develop the path to the end of suffering. This dichotomy runs all the way, even to his teachings on dependent co-arising, which are considered his most advanced teachings, in which he … 
  21. You Can Make a Difference
     … As he says, people are bewildered because of their suffering, and they search for a way out—they look for somebody who knows a way to put an end to that suffering. If you’re telling them that what their suffering is, is totally beyond their control—that what’s causing it is already set in motion, you can’t do anything about it … 
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