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  2. Practicing on Your Own
     … how suffering is caused and where you look for the cause so that you can put an end to the suffering, and what you do to put an end to the suffering. These principles don’t change from time to time. You want to hold to these things, because not only does the culture at large tend to dismiss the whole idea of actions … 
  3. Facing Your Responsibilities
     … This way you cause less suffering for yourself, less suffering for others. And your life has a very clear sense of direction. There’s so little in the world that you can really straighten out, but you can straighten out your own mind. When the mind is straightened out, then the effect that you have on the world is not colored by greed, anger … 
  4. Fear
     … In particular, it begins to see that through clinging there’s got to be suffering. It not only causes immediate suffering in the present but it also leads you to do things that cause even more suffering on into the future. They talk about the person who practices the Dhamma as being a warrior. Well, one of the lessons of being a good warrior … 
  5. Tools of Perception
     … We go around with a lot of perceptions that can weigh us down, that actually cause a lot of suffering. Then there are other perceptions that help alleviate the suffering. Then there’s a point where the perceptions have done their work, and you put them aside. That’s the correct use of all the different ideas and concepts we pick up from the … 
  6. Recovering Your Balance
     … That’s what the teaching on suffering is all about. If suffering were just something that happened to us because of things outside—if conditions outside are bad, so we suffer, and if conditions are good, we don’t—then the issue wouldn’t be inside. The issue would be outside. The thing is, when conditions are bad, we can suffer. When conditions are … 
  7. In the Driver’s Seat
     … But more importantly, the question is, even with pains that come from your past actions, the suffering you’re creating around them is something you’re doing right now, which means you can change that. You can change the perceptions you have around the pain. You can ask yourself where the clinging is—because after all, the suffering is in the clinging. Are you … 
  8. Standards for Thinking
     … The basic message is that whatever suffering weighs down the mind is comes from within, comes from your craving; and the way to put an end to it comes down to training your thoughts, your words, and your deeds. That cuts through a lot of garbage right there. All too often, you tell yourself you’re suffering because of this person or that event … 
  9. Delight & Beyond Delight
     … It wasn’t just that life is suffering. Life has suffering, but life also has the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path you can follow to get there. You want to keep that possibility in mind. That helps teach you to delight in what you’re doing as you practice, even on days when the path doesn’t seem very … 
  10. Allowing the Breath to Spread
     … As for the parts you can’t make comfortable, realize that part of the problem is that you add to the problem, you add to the pain, you add to the suffering. This right here gives you an important lesson in the Buddha’s teachings on dukkha, or suffering, stress. Some forms of suffering or stress are part of the three characteristics. In other … 
  11. Holding On to the Path
     … Compassion has to be directed at suffering, which would require that there be people who are suffering. So your basic nature would require that there be suffering in the world, otherwise something wouldn’t feel right. You want to be compassionate but there’d be nobody to be compassionate for. But from the Buddha’s point of view, compassion is something you use both … 
  12. The Buddha’s Relationship Advice
     … The Buddha asks him, “Where are you coming from?” He says, “From my son’s funeral, my only son.” And the Buddha says, “Yes, there’s a lot of suffering that comes from those who are dear.” And the man said, “Well, no, I don’t agree with that. There’s a lot of happiness that comes from those who are dear.” Here was … 
  13. Fire Escapes
     … But the end of the universe, in terms of the suffering of the universes of all your becomings, he says, can be found in here. You don’t have to go out there. So, stay in here. Get to know this space really fully. The end of suffering is to be found in this fathom-long body. That doesn’t mean that it’s … 
  14. Analyzing Anger
     … That’s what ultimately leads to suffering. When you breathe in ignorance and talk to yourself in ignorance and hold perceptions and feelings in the mind in ignorance, you’re going to suffer. When we work with these things in breath meditation, we bring knowledge to them: seeing where they’re stressful, seeing where they’re not stressful; seeing where they’re helpful, skillful … 
  15. Insights
     … After all, even the Buddha, on the night of his awakening, didn’t come to the conclusion that his first two insights were absolutely true until he had achieved the third insight, in which he actually saw suffering dropping away from the mind and no suffering coming to take its place. He realized he’d reached something that, in his words, could not be … 
  16. If These Walls Could Talk
     … The whole purpose of the four noble truths is to help you put an end to suffering. If you want to put an end to suffering, then he says this is what you’ve got to do: You’ve got to comprehend suffering, abandon the cause, develop the path, so that you can realize the cessation of suffering. Those are all compassionate duties. And … 
  17. The Challenge
     … There’s a lot of suffering in that process, both in your own search for the food and suffering for other beings who have to be food, or work to produce food, clothing, shelter, or medicine. On top of that, there’s the suffering of the mind. Even when you get food today, there’s always the question: Where is tomorrow’s food going … 
  18. Who Are You Trying to Please?
     … I’m suffering, and I need to get rid of my own suffering, and it’s not for anybody else.” As he would often say, we’re not anybody’s servants. Nobody paid us to be ordained. Nobody’s paying us to practice. We’re here because our suffering is pushing us into the practice, and we want to put an end to it … 
  19. Secluded from Sensuality
     … There is the possibility that you can totally end suffering. Without that possibility, you can say, “I’ll just go for whatever pleasures I like.” Some people like sensuality; other people like a quiet state of mind. Sounds like it’s just a matter of personal preference. But when the total end of suffering is an option, you want to reorder your values, spending … 
  20. True Happiness Starts with Giving
     … We think that suffering is our enemy and cravings are our friends. But, actually craving is the enemy because it’s what’s causing the suffering. As a part of the strategy of the practice, we learn how to become friends with suffering. In other words, we get familiar with it. We don’t try to push it away. We don’t try to … 
  21. The Gradual Path of Skill
     … That’s the desire never to come back and have to suffer ever again. The desire not to suffer, which we all have, is what forms the foundation of how we can practice. The Buddha simply takes it to a level of skill, a level of all-around discernment that goes way beyond what the rest of the world would have accepted. The Buddha … 
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