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2. Play AudioChoosing Sides
    … Then all of a sudden, there was a passage where, in the original, Ajaan Chah talks about how important it is to understand the truth about dukkha, stress or suffering, and the cause of dukkha, so that you can learn how to stop the cause and, in that way, stop suffering. But the translation said you want to learn about dukkha because that, in … 
3. Play AudioAdmirable Friendship
    … You have to look for the cause of the suffering and pare it down to the real essentials. If you focus only on the things you don’t like, or if you get too distracted with extraneous issues, they get in the way. So we’re here to look, as the Buddha said, at the craving in our minds. The craving and the ignorance … 
4. Play AudioStrategic Wisdom
    … You lied to yourself and suddenly found yourself going in that direction, and you ended up suffering. So ask yourself, do you want to go through that again? There are ways not to repeat your old mistakes, the first of which is to recognize your mistakes as mistakes. A second one is to fortify the mind in such a way that it doesn’t … 
5. Play AudioPerceptions Around Pain
    … what you’re doing right now, what you’re thinking right now, the perceptions you apply to things and the perceptions that you hold on to, the extent to which these things are causing suffering or contributing to suffering, creating disturbance in the mind. When you see them clearly, you can let them go because you see they’re something different from your awareness … 
6. Play AudioPerception
    … As we’re sitting here, sometimes we deal with feelings of pain, and as long as you identify the pain, perceive the pain as being the same thing as the part of the body in which it’s located, it’s going to be very difficult to not suffer from it. Your perception that it has invaded the body you claim as yours is … 
7. Play AudioAlone with Your Mind
    … Everything that he taught, he said, dealt with suffering and the end of suffering̦—and of course that includes the way to the end of suffering. His teachings were pointed at this particular end. Everything in the Dhamma points here. Again, this is a really special teaching. We’re fortunate we’ve found it. Then there are all the people who have followed this … 
8. Play AudioPersistence
    … As the Buddha said, if you attain the Dhamma eye, the amount of suffering left ahead of you is like dirt under a fingernail, whereas if you haven’t, the amount of suffering ahead of you is like all the dirt in the Earth. So which is more painful? Which is longer? Think about these things until you have a sense that you really … 
9. Play AudioConviction in Charge
    … You see clearly what in the mind leads to suffering and what in the mind can take you away from suffering. You do your best to develop what’s going to take you away from suffering and to abandon what will lead to suffering. And eventually, the Buddha said, you come to a realization, as things begin to open up in the mind, that … 
10. Play AudioRefuge in an Admirable Friend
     … As he says, the question that lies at the beginning of discernment is going to someone who is knowledgeable and asking, “What is skillful?” “What is unskillful?” “What, when I do, will lead to my long-term welfare and happiness?” “What, when I do, will lead to my long-term harm and suffering?” The wisdom there is in seeing that if you’re going … 
11. Play AudioWorldly Effort
     … The ending of suffering takes effort. The question is, which effort are you going to focus on? Just keeping alive or putting an end to suffering? Of course, keeping alive requires dealing with suffering, trying to minimize it. But the question is, how far are you going to go? We like to think that if we get skillful enough in the way we lead … 
12. Play AudioAnger
     … the things you do that lead to suffering and the things you can do that lead to the end of suffering. The doing there is important, because we shape our experience much more than we normally imagine, and insight lies in seeing precisely that fact: seeing what we’re doing to shape our experience, even though we may think we’re sitting here perfectly … 
13. Play AudioFabricating against Defilement
     … remembering what led to suffering in the past is probably going to lead to suffering again, no matter how attractive it may seem right now. Other practices that did lead the mind to clarity in the past will probably do it again. So even though the practices may seem difficult, you learn to inspire a sense of desire in yourself to do them. This … 
14. Play AudioBringing Right resolve
     … When you see that there’s something causing you to suffer, you want to do something about it. If you see something causing other people to suffer and you can help them, you want to do something about it. If you can’t help them, you have to develop equanimity. The same for yourself: There are some areas where you can’t change the … 
15. Play AudioAppropriate Attention
     … Why are we suffering? What are we doing that’s creating the suffering and what can we do to stop? He was very critical of teachers who would engage in what he called “bombast”: flowery words, beautiful sentiments that don’t offer any guidance that could be applied to that question, “What should I do next? What is the wisest thing to do next … 
16. Play AudioInner Negotiating Skills
     … You should try to comprehend suffering, you should try to abandon its cause, you should try to realize the cessation of suffering, you should try to develop the path—those are your shoulds. And where are they aimed? They’re aimed at true happiness. In Western culture, the shoulds are not necessarily aimed at your happiness, which is why there’s always an internal … 
17. Play AudioSpread Goodness Around
     … It means that nobody in the world is a stranger, in the sense that the suffering they’re going through is not strange: You’ve been there. You’ve had that suffering, too. They say that after the Buddha’s awakening, he surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha, and he saw that all beings were on fire with the fires of … 
18. Play AudioDistractive Thoughts
     … You’ve gained an important insight into how the mind creates suffering, how things don’t have to entail suffering. There was an element of intention, and you were doing something to the pain that actually made the mind suffer. That’s an important lesson. On the other hand, if there are states of mind that are fascinated with lust, turn around and try … 
19. Play AudioEquanimity Isn’t Everything
     … There are lots of different ways you can use these fabrications to counteract those causes of stress and suffering that are really deeply entrenched. You have to learn through your own experience which causes of suffering respond to which type of approach. We may like the idea that “We’ll just watch this, and it’ll go away on its own eventually, and that … 
20. Play AudioInterdependence & Death
     … It’s not a pretty image, because there’s suffering on both sides. Of course, those who are being fed on are suffering, but those who have to feed suffer as well. When you’re in a position where you need to feed, it’s very precarious. The Buddha never celebrated the principle of interconnectedness, because it’s all tied up in suffering, pain … 
21. Play AudioNo Preferences
     … the end of suffering. It gives rise to vision, gives rise to knowledge, brings about peace, knowledge, nibbana. So that’s what makes the Buddha’s teaching special: He had found a path of action. That’s what’s worth talking about: looking at which paths of action lead to suffering, which ones lead to the end of suffering, and then following the one … 
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