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  2. The Truth of Transcendence
     … There is a total end of suffering; there is a total release and it’s totally unconditioned. Another teacher I was reading said that release is something conditioned. She cited a text in the Canon where the Buddha starts out with dependent co-arising up through suffering and then from suffering talks about how suffering gives rise to conviction and conviction gives rise to … 
  3. Some Assembly Required
     … We do things that cause stress and suffering. We cling to things: That’s the suffering. We crave them: That’s what causes it. There are things we like. That’s why we cling, that’s why we crave—when we’re not willing to see the suffering that goes along with them. It’s only when you can see that, that you’re … 
  4. Shame & Acceptance
     … These are all the things you need.” And so a lot of his Dhamma talks focused on, one, the fact that people were suffering; and, two, they had the resources that, if they worked at them, could take them out of suffering. That’s the important point: if you work on them. You need to have a strong sense that where you are is … 
  5. An Auspicious Birth
     … If there’s suffering, the duty is to comprehend it. If there’s craving or clinging, the duty is to let it go. As for the cessation of suffering that comes when craving is abandoned, you have to realize that, even on a momentary level. You should try to be very clear that when you let go of a particular craving, the corresponding suffering … 
  6. Lessons of Right Resolve
     … He taught it for everybody—everybody who realizes that they are causing their own suffering. They’re sick and tired of blaming it on other people, because that goes nowhere. They turn around and ask what can they do so that they don’t have to suffer. And to whatever extent they’ve been causing suffering for themselves or others in the past, that … 
  7. Goodwill for the Breath
     … After all, if the Buddha didn’t base his teachings on goodwill, on the desire for true happiness, why would he focus on suffering as is his main issue? It’s because he wanted to free himself and free us from suffering: That’s why he focused there, so he wouldn’t have to keep putting up with false happiness all the time. The … 
  8. Death Is Normal
     … You’ve got human capabilities, and among those capabilities is the ability to train your mind so that regardless of what happens, you don’t have to suffer. The people with untrained minds are the ones who flail around and cause themselves suffering. They cause other people suffering, too, because when you see someone really suffering like that, you want to do your best … 
  9. Open Are the Doors to the Deathless
     … All too often, Buddhism is described as being pessimistic because it focuses on pain and suffering. Well, the Buddha never said that life is suffering, but he did say, there is suffering and this is what it is: clinging to the five aggregates, which are activities of the mind. So, it’s something you’re doing. And why are you doing it? Because of … 
  10. Unskillful Thinking
     … Things that shouldn’t make you suffer make you suffer. Yet it’s not really that they’re making you suffer: You’re making yourself suffer over them. That’s the problem. As the Buddha pointed out, there are two kinds of suffering in the world. There’s the natural suffering of having a body, of having a mind that’s full of change … 
  11. Visakha Puja – True Homage
     … The candles stand for discernment that throws light on our actions, revealing to us how we cause suffering and how we can learn how not to cause suffering. Those are the symbols, but we don’t want just the symbols. We want the reality. So let’s meditate. Focus on your breath. Know when the breath is coming in, know when it’s going … 
  12. Only Natural
    Only Natural May 16, 2020 One of the main reasons for suffering is the way the mind talks to itself. Now, the solution is not to just stop talking. You have to understand the process of what’s going on as the mind talks to itself. Who’s talking? Where does it come from? Where does it lead? When you understand it, then you … 
  13. A Path of Aggregates
    There’s a strange phrase in the chant we had just now: “those who don’t discern suffering.” You would think that everybody can discern suffering. But from the Buddha’s point of view, he was the first to really discern it. When he explains suffering, the noble truth of suffering, he starts out with common examples of suffering: aging, illness, and death; sorrow … 
  14. Feeding the Mind
     … That’s suffering as well. The word for sustenance, upadana, also means clinging. Wherever the mind clings, that’s where it’s feeding. And the process of clinging, the Buddha said, is suffering. The process of having to depend on other things like this: That’s suffering. Interrelatedness is no fun, because the system that we’re dependent on is just so much out … 
  15. The Karma of Self
     … This is where the other side of self comes in, the self that’s experiencing the happiness and suffering coming from the things you do. You have to keep reminding yourself, yes, you will suffer if you’re not skillful, but if you do develop skillfulness, if you put the effort in right now, it’s going to bring good results right now and … 
  16. Looking Off to the Side
    We’re here because we aim at awakening, the end of suffering, a totally unconditioned happiness. So what are we doing looking at the breath? Why do we spend our time playing with the breath? Why aren’t we going straight to the goal? Because the goal isn’t something you go straight to. It requires strategies. One, because it’s a huge goal … 
  17. The Culture of the Practice
     … You also realize that your attitude toward suffering has to be noble. In other words, you accept responsibility for whether you’re going to suffer or not, and then you look into the machinations of the mind to see where they’re creating suffering. You may say, well, it’s because there’s pain here, there’s pain there. But why do you suffer … 
  18. Guardian Meditations
     … That’s what starts suffering in motion. When you replace the ignorance with knowledge, that cuts the chain of causes and conditions leading to suffering. So it’s good to know precisely what kind of knowledge is called for here: knowledge of the four noble truths. This is why right view is always given as the first factor in the noble eightfold path. It … 
  19. Faith in Awakening
     … When the Buddha talks about the noble truth of suffering, it’s not that suffering is noble. But when you realize that clinging is suffering, and you’re going to comprehend your clinging to the point of dispassion for it, that’s a noble act. When the Buddha talks about the awakened ones being noble, this is precisely the kind of nobility he had … 
  20. Choices
     … If it weren’t for that fact, there’d be nothing you could do about suffering, nothing you could do about stress. You’d just have to sit there and endure it. But it’s through our ignorance that we’re choosing to make ourselves suffer. When we gain knowledge, we can choose to make ourselves suffer less. So choose knowledge Try to be … 
  21. The Buddha’s Good News
     … The good news is that there are things you can do to avoid suffering. After all, the four noble truths don’t just stop with the first noble truth. There are four of them. They explain the cause of suffering. They say that it is possible to put an end to suffering, and they lay out the path. And the path to the end … 
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