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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. Deconstruction
     … That’s the clinging-aggregates, that’s the suffering—which is really counterintuitive. We tend to think that we find our happiness in feeding. Of course, here the Buddha is talking about not only physical feeding, but also mental and emotional feeding. These are areas where we tend to find our happiness, and yet he says that’s where we suffer, because it’s … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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 … 
  14. 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 … 
  15. 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 … 
  16. The Languages of the Mind
     … Here the tool is exploring the present moment, exploring your experience of the present moment, so that you can understand where the suffering is, where the cause of suffering is, what you can do to bring about the end of suffering, and what the end of suffering is actually like. That last one is the real purpose—and only when you can focus all … 
  17. How to Be Self-Centered
     … We suffer not because of what other people do, and the path to the end of suffering doesn’t lie in straightening other people out. We suffer from what we’re doing, and the path lies in straightening out ourselves. So that’s where our focus has to be. That’s where we have to be centered. This means we shouldn’t try not … 
  18. The Buddha’s Currency
     … You really see that the suffering that weighs the mind down most is the suffering that comes from within. The world may go up and down, the economies of the world go up and down, but if your mind doesn’t have to go up and down with them, then you’re not going to have to suffer. So the real difference lies in … 
  19. Shaping Your Breath, Shaping Your Life
     … So we’re training ourselves in ways of learning how not to suffer, how not to pile more suffering on top of what we’ve already got. As the Buddha said, all too often a physical pain comes and we get worked up about it. Well, the first pain was an arrow, and then you get worked up and that’s more arrows that … 
  20. A Sense of Space Inside
     … After all, the whole point of the teaching is that the suffering that really weighs us down is the suffering created by the mind itself. There may be things happening outside that we don’t like—and some of them can be really bad—but the question of whether that exterior influence is going to have an influence on the mind has a lot … 
  21. Dhamma Is a Quality of the Heart
     … in other words, your awareness right here.” Whether you’re Christian or Buddhist doesn’t have to get involved, because the things that are happening in your awareness right now are the things that cause suffering, regardless of your background. But you can also develop qualities right here in your awareness that will put an end to suffering. And the process of developing the … 
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