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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. The Same for Everyone
     … Ajaan Fuang’s comment was, “You have to think about that for quite a bit to make sense of what he said.” In other words, we have our differences, we have our peculiar ways of making ourselves suffer and making the people around us suffer, but when you come right down to it, the basic principles of why we’re suffering are all the … 
  15. Asalha Puja – Completeness
     … Look at your intention in the present moment to see if it’s causing suffering or leading to the end of suffering. Everything comes down to the quality of the intention, the quality of the desire behind the intention. The cause of suffering, the Buddha says, comes down to three kinds of craving: sensual craving, craving to become this or that, or once you … 
  16. Comfort Dhamma
     … That may be comforting, but it doesn’t really do much to end suffering. If can soothe your suffering for a little while. But actually, if you hold to beliefs like that, you end up doing a lot of things that are going to lead you to suffer even more. So just like comfort food, this kind of comfort Dhamma is not necessarily good … 
  17. Passion for Dispassion
     … We want happiness, but we do things that lead to suffering, and it’s out of our ignorance. Whereas Ajaan Suwat would say, “It’s out of our stupidity.” We should be able to see that acts we’re doing are leading to suffering, but we don’t. We tend to blame the suffering on somebody else, somewhere else, something outside. Why is that … 
  18. Wisdom for Dummies
     … When you dig deep down into why people suffer, you find that it’s because of craving. How can people stop suffering? By developing the path, which is primarily composed of good qualities of mind. So you realize the mind has to be trained. That’s another basic principle of wisdom: that true happiness comes from training the mind, because the mind is what … 
  19. Bases for Success
     … The reason we suffer is because we’re stupid about certain things. We may be very wise, very well-educated in some areas, but we’re really stupid about the issue of suffering: exactly what the suffering is, why we’re suffering. So that’s the Buddha’s special contribution to the practice of concentration, the element of discrimination: concentration based on trying to … 
  20. Nobody’s Servant
     … In other words, life isn’t just suffering. It also contains the possibility for the cessation of suffering, and there’s the path to the cessation of suffering. And the cessation of suffering is something unfabricated. Once you’ve found it, it’s not going to change on you. Even the three perceptions—the perceptions of inconstancy, stress, not-self— don’t apply to … 
  21. Kamma & Rebirth—A Handful of Leaves
     … No matter how good they’ve been, no matter how bad they’ve been, you tell yourself you don’t want to see anybody suffer. Now, this doesn’t mean that they won’t suffer. It means simply that you want to make sure your intentions around other people are something you can trust. At the same time, you have to be able to … 
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