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  2. The Raft of Concepts
     … Anathapindika’s response was: “Those who hold to any of these views suffer because they’re clinging to the view. The view is conditioned, and whenever there’s clinging to anything conditioned, there’s bound to be suffering. So they’re clinging to stress.” The sectarians then said, “Well, what about your view?” And he said, essentially, “All views are conditioned. Whatever is conditioned … 
  3. In Times of Danger and Fear
     … If we don’t practice the Dhamma, we’re going to suffer. If we do practice, we won’t suffer—no matter how bad the situation is outside or how bad the situation is inside our bodies—because we’ve made the situation in our minds skillful. This is the message of the Buddha’s teachings: For all the trouble there is in the … 
  4. The Resolve to Let Go
     … If there’s somebody you’d really like to see suffer—even if that person is yourself—you have to ask yourself, “What would you gain by the suffering?” When people suffer, they tend to behave in even more unskillful ways. They tend to lash out at others. So there’s nothing really gained by wishing suffering on somebody else. The same goes for … 
  5. Values
     … Where is the potential for greater understanding in the present moment? He said it was looking at the question of suffering. Where is there suffering right now? What’s creating it? What can you do to put an end to it? His willingness to look at the world at large was what got him focused properly and kept him going on the path. The … 
  6. Healing & Protection
     … You begin to ask yourself, “Why would I want to do that?” Often we do cruel and stupid and harmful things because we’re suffering. There’s a sense of dis-ease in the mind, and we place the blame outside. Or even if we don’t blame the people outside, we feel that as long as we’re suffering, let everybody else suffer … 
  7. Ardency
     … The Buddha said that if breathing is done with ignorance, it leads to suffering. When you’re ignorant of the ways your mind talks to itself, it’s going to lead to suffering, the way you relate to feelings and perceptions is going to lead to suffering. The only way to cut through that ignorance is to be as consistently aware as possible. This … 
  8. Educating Equanimity
     … As you learn how to educate your emotions in this way, you learn an awful lot about how to overcome stress and suffering. You cause yourself less suffering; you cause other people less suffering. The help that you offer is more effective, more likely to lead to genuine well-being for everybody involved.
  9. Specifically
     … Change requires that we look very carefully at ourselves in detail, because we’re not suffering from generalities. The words of the teachings are expressed in general terms: the cause of suffering is craving, the suffering itself is clinging. You can know that and you can still suffer. To stop suffering, you have to know the details in your own awareness. Why do you … 
  10. Conviction & Truth
     … Here’s the possibility of putting an end to suffering, and even before you put a total end to suffering you can begin to see—as you put the path into practice—that many forms of suffering are falling away. There’s the stress, of course, of having to put the path into practice, but a lot of the really heavy forms of suffering … 
  11. Wisdom Through Training
     … Even if things are going well in life, even though circumstances outside are perfectly fine, if your mind isn’t well trained, you can create suffering. When the mind is trained, then even though things maybe going poorly outside, it doesn’t have to suffer. The mind is what makes all the difference in the world. This is how you start: with very simple … 
  12. Freedom & Responsibility
     … All he teaches, he says, are suffering and the end of suffering. But he doesn’t really define suffering that clearly. He gives examples and they’re pretty broad: not getting what you want, having to stay with what you don’t like, being separated from what you do like. You can interpret these examples in your own language and tailor them to your … 
  13. Your Committee of Addicts
    When the Buddha describes suffering, it’s as if he’s describing an addiction. Suffering is not a something we’re simply on the receiving end of. It’s an activity we’re actively doing. Yet we turn a blind eye to the suffering that comes with our actions. That’s an addiction, and it’s an addiction that’s hard to break. We … 
  14. Character
     … Even though it wants well-being, well-being, well-being, what it actually does is create more suffering, suffering, suffering. Why is that? Ignorance. Where is the ignorance? How can we get past that? Not with just a trick of perception or a sly technique. Qualities of the character are going to be required to pierce through the ignorance. That way, whatever duties you … 
  15. Secluded from Sensuality
    As the Buddha commented one time, our reaction to suffering is twofold. One is bewilderment: Why is there this pain? Why is there this suffering? The second is a search: Is there someone who knows a way out of this suffering? For the most part, the advice we get on finding a way out of suffering is to look for sensual pleasure. But those … 
  16. On Not Being a Victim
     … There should be an end to suffering. He focused his conviction on that. And the power of his conviction made a difference. It reshaped his mind, reshaped his experience of things. It shaped his mind until it reached a point where it could see things very clearly in terms of why there is suffering and how you can put an end to suffering. It … 
  17. Basic Stuff
     … It comes from our actions, just as suffering comes from our actions. We may think that things outside cause us to suffer, but it’s the way we get worked up about them: That’s what actually causes us to suffer. Which means you have to turn around and really look at your mind, to put yourself in a position where you have more … 
  18. Choices that Matter
     … When he taught the four noble truths, he didn’t present them simply as four interesting facts about suffering and stress. He said, here are four different things you can do: You can try to comprehend the stress and suffering—looking to see that in the action of clinging there is suffering right there—and to see how that’s true. Then see how … 
  19. Views & Vision
     … You’re not simply a product of social pressures and social influences, because there is something that really is totally yours, which is suffering. No one else can experience your suffering. Nobody knows how much you suffer, how you suffer. That’s something only you can know, but you can really know it. And as the Buddha points out, you can also learn how … 
  20. The Human Condition
     … Are you the only person suffering these things?” This is his solution for the question, “Why me?” The answer, of course, is that it’s not just you. It happens to everybody with no exceptions. It’s amazing what opening your eyes like this will do for you. And it’s ironic, how realizing the huge amount of suffering in every life can make … 
  21. The Gift of the Practice
     … With the second noble truth—the cause of suffering or the origination of suffering—the duty is to abandon it. Once you recognize the craving, let it go. With the cessation of suffering, the duty is to learn how to realize it, recognize it, verify it for yourself that there really is such a thing. Then finally the path is something to be developed … 
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