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  2. To Keep You Going
     … Compassion, of course, comes from the realization that your happiness can’t depend on the suffering of others. And then finally there’s the quality of purity, in which you really do make sure that your actions don’t cause any suffering or any harm. You have to reflect on your actions and their results, again and again and again. Learning to recognize your … 
  3. Control
     … You wish for those who are suffering to be freed from their suffering. As for those who are happy, you hope that they learn how to maintain their happiness. But then there are a lot of cases in this world where people are suffering and you can’t do a thing about it. It’s totally beyond your control. There are people who are … 
  4. The Reality of Emotions
     … But you can also fabricate them with the knowledge that leads to the end of suffering. So look at where you are on the path. Sometimes it requires focusing on the grief, focusing on the discomfort. There’s a passage in the sutta on transcendent dependent co-arising that traces all the factors leading up to suffering, but then states that from suffering you … 
  5. Injustice
     … When you see that people are suffering, goodwill turns into compassion: wanting for that suffering to end. When you see that other people are happy, you have empathetic joy for their happiness. You’re not jealous; you’re not resentful. But then you come across cases where someone seems to be happy and fortunate, prosperous, and yet they don’t seem to deserve it … 
  6. A Multilingual Mind
     … how your intentions give rise to suffering, how the process of fabrication gives rise to suffering. He wants you to look at these things as a process so that you can understand the patterns. The first step is to see what kinds of fabrication are blatantly unskillful, so that you can learn how to drop them. And then as your sensitivity to the idea … 
  7. Empathetic Joy
     … But the fact that those things are in the past doesn’t mean we have to suffer from them. That’s where our choice lies: in realizing you don’t have to suffer. It gives you energy to react as skillfully as you can and be proactive as skillfully as you can with whatever potentials come up in your life. So don’t hesitate … 
  8. The Purpose of Empathetic Joy
     … Compassion leads to a higher level of concentration than goodwill, perhaps because the desire to help those who are suffering, or those who are creating the causes for suffering, is a more uplifting emotion than the simple desire to see beings be happy. You open up your heart more to those who are suffering, and with that opening of the heart there’s a … 
  9. Disconnecting
     … You don’t need to feed off of them, and you don’t need to suffer and cause the suffering that comes when you make your happiness depend on others. When you’re dependent, you’re creating suffering not only for yourself but also for the people around you. When you learn how to be independent, you’re not creating any suffering and you … 
  10. Dhamma for Laypeople
     … Monks aren’t the only ones who suffer from passion while laypeople don’t suffer from passion. We all have passion. To what extent that we have passion, we all suffer. But to what extent can you apply the teachings on abandoning passion in your life? Well, in every case, whether you’re a monk or a layperson, you start out by applying it … 
  11. The Pursuit of Excellence
     … Wherever there’s suffering, you’ve got to look for its cause, because it’s something you want to abandon. You want to bring about the end of suffering. It’s not something to just note or to continue playing with. Of course, the Buddha’s analysis of suffering—the five clinging-aggregates—when you actually think about what it means, goes against the … 
  12. Into the Cave with the Tiger
     … As the Buddha said, right here in the present moment is where you’re causing yourself suffering. You’re not causing yourself suffering in the past, you’re not causing it in the future. You’re causing it right now. There may be things coming in through the senses that come from past unskillful karma, but the fact that you’re suffering from that … 
  13. Adult Dhamma
     … When you really see that there’s a connection between unskillful intentions and needless suffering, you become genuinely motivated to find the escape from that suffering. This is the only way you can do it. Basically, you have to learn to judge what’s worth observing and what’s not. And again the Buddha points you to what’s worth observing. The issue of … 
  14. Introduction
     … They make all the difference in the world between whether we’re going to be happy or are going to suffer, whether we’re going to cause happiness or suffering for ourselves and others. As the Buddha says, his teaching is the karma that leads to the end of karma. It’s a very special kind of karma. It requires all your powers of … 
  15. Sensitivity & Skill
     … everything from really harsh suffering up to a very subtle sense of disturbance or dis-ease. I was reading a piece recently where someone was saying that there’s only one way you can translate dukkha, and that’s as “suffering.” Nothing else captures its essence. But that would mean that there would be no dukkha at all in concentration, which is not the … 
  16. Three Recollections
     … You can abandon the causes for suffering, and in the course of developing the path, you see those causes more clearly. You can actually see where you’re causing stress for yourself, and you don’t have to. You have options, you have abilities: to think, speak, talk in ways that don’t cause any suffering at all, and actually cut through the habits … 
  17. Guardian Meditations
     … When the Buddha was teaching the end of suffering to people, he didn’t ask them first, “Do you deserve to suffer?” Everybody he met had karma that could induce them to suffer, but they didn’t have to suffer from it. That’s what the teaching was all about. You don’t have to suffer. And again, he didn’t hold people’s … 
  18. How to Use the Three Perceptions
     … For example, with suffering or stress, the first noble truth: The duty is to comprehend it. “Comprehending” here means understanding it to the point of dispassion. So first you’ve got to figure out where in your life you’re clinging to the aggregates, because that’s the Buddha’s succinct statement for the first noble truth: Suffering is the five clinging-aggregates. So … 
  19. Jhana & Insight
    The mind feeds, and it suffers because it feeds: That was the Buddha’s insight. And a further insight was that there actually is a dimension of the mind that doesn’t need to feed. When we can find that, we stop suffering. Without that other dimension, there would be no end to suffering. And that’s what we’re here to find. A … 
  20. Refuge
     … Now, we all know that becoming is one of the causes of suffering. But if you learn how to do it well, it becomes the path to the end of suffering. Becoming is a sense of who you are in a world of experience. Right now, the world of experience is the breath in the body, and you are the observer. You’re the … 
  21. Rooted in Heedful Desire
     … And why do you want to be heedful? Because you’ve seen the suffering that comes from aging, illness, death, and separation. You realize that the suffering comes from your own actions, so you want to stop doing actions like that. So heedfulness is based on informed desire, a desire informed by discernment. The discernment gets sharper the more you learn to use it … 
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