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Visions of the Beyond - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 17 mentions

• tied up with um the end of suffering so that in the moment of let's say experiencing that
• reborn into the world so it's intimately tied up with a view of ending suffering because one ends rebirth this is also a
• is intimately tied up with ending suffering tying this back to the opening talk if i
• movement that all they want is to end suffering there is wrapped up in that yearning for them there is the desire
• described as or captured by a desire to end suffering i said there's a whole range here for
• um towards either eradicating suffering or for most people just reducing suffering
• eradicating suffering or for most people just reducing suffering so that it's the increase of peace
• um getting rid of or or reducing suffering and so we are the patient so to speak
• about what about the first neighborhood is about suffering and the investigation of the cause of it and the movement
• theories and all of that um in that model the ending of suffering or even the reduction of suffering may
• um in that model the ending of suffering or even the reduction of suffering may at times not be the primary thing
• political statement or it tries to alleviate suffering in some way but most are it has nothing to do with that it's
• um meeting suffering or easing pain or peace or well-being or whatever you know
• wanted peace or you wanted ease or you wanted less suffering or whatever it is and just to check and i i asked this at
• is it only ease or peace or they're suffering certainly at times that's the dominant thing we want and probably
• the ending or even just the reduction of suffering if you want just peace just ease
• in a bigger sense than just healing of suffering what does that mean the healing of

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 17 mentions

• having a difficulty or the other who is suffering we we find a way to see them as image or the seeing of them or
• emptiness that also uh releases some suffering out of the situation some of the grip of the
• craving and the contraction in in relation to the suffering the causes so in relation to the difficulty that
• in relation to the difficulty that causes itself it causes extra suffering so there's generally speaking because of
• can have with in regard in relationship to suffering so it's not always here's some suffering oh can i see it's
• to suffering so it's not always here's some suffering oh can i see it's impermanent can i see it's empty can i
• about and find the image here with with the suffering in a suffering situation you know that's
• the suffering in a suffering situation you know that's probably very liable to be misunderstood
• um to a suffering so it might be a physical suffering and
• to a suffering so it might be a physical suffering and perhaps the mind is getting embroiled in
• there's one uh great level of reducing the suffering and the remaining to cut is regarded as perfect
• kind of callousness in relation to one's own suffering or in relation to someone else's suffering or
• in relation to one's own suffering or in relation to someone else's suffering or the suffering in the world and actually
• relation to someone else's suffering or the suffering in the world and actually they are for all the kind of
• um other options we have as dharma practitioners when faced with suffering when faced with dukkha
• there's something real in there of the of the suffering that we can kind of
• relationship um that was perceived as suffering as we said that discovery of creation of

The Sense of Self - (Meditation on Emptiness) 17 mentions

• because for the buddha primary thing was suffering and the end of suffering as you always said i teach
• primary thing was suffering and the end of suffering as you always said i teach one thing and one thing only suffering
• of suffering as you always said i teach one thing and one thing only suffering and the end of suffering
• one thing and one thing only suffering and the end of suffering what that means in that statement is
• we relate to the self are actually secondary to the question of suffering and it says suffering and the ending
• secondary to the question of suffering and it says suffering and the ending suffering is the primary question not
• and it says suffering and the ending suffering is the primary question not self in the end and seeing through self
• so the buddha's question is what gives rise to suffering what increases suffering and what what releases
• rise to suffering what increases suffering and what what releases suffering now sometimes it's appropriate
• suffering and what what releases suffering now sometimes it's appropriate to to look in terms of the self to
• terms of that question of what's going to lead to suffering and what's going to free us from suffering remember that's
• to lead to suffering and what's going to free us from suffering remember that's the overarching question the overarch is
• if if something's impermanent is it suffering or not suffering otherwise is it can it totally satisfy you or can it
• and then the buddha would say if this thing is suffering then not satisfactory if it's dukkah how could it
• and movement mental actions as well that lead to suffering and ones that don't lead to suffering and i actually just
• lead to suffering and ones that don't lead to suffering and i actually just put aside this whole question of self
• the future based on that but what action will lead to suffering what action will lead to freedom

Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 17 mentions

• tools to work with that to soften and ease the suffering around that so i can practice meta if there's anger
• so snakes off any sense of duality shakes off suffering basically shakes off samsara and he knows that all this
• beginning if you like the fundamental basis for suffering so we suffer because we cling and we cling because we
• with so here i am um suffering with my sense of self here i am suffering with my emotion of anger
• um suffering with my sense of self here i am suffering with my emotion of anger or sadness or tiredness or whatever it
• radicality of the teaching but when we see that things are empty the suffering goes out suffering goes out and that's
• see that things are empty the suffering goes out suffering goes out and that's what we're after here as practitioners
• what we're after here as practitioners as suffering goes out of experience the problem goes out
• obtain liberation so the suffering that we have in life all the suffering we have in life the
• so the suffering that we have in life all the suffering we have in life the totality of suffering we have in life
• all the suffering we have in life the totality of suffering we have in life ultimately and certainly the suffering
• totality of suffering we have in life ultimately and certainly the suffering of what's called the three chelatias the
• three afflictions of greed and aversion and delusion the suffering in life is dependent on conceiving inherent
• that something doesn't have an inherent existence the suffering goes out of my relationship with that thing so i'm not
• out my suffering my stress in relationship to a thing to a situation to this
• all really wonderful am i suffering around depends on my seeing that thing and that situation on
• i feel compassion towards you because you're suffering because you're another person

Heart Work - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 16 mentions

• all options or am i touched by my own suffering am i moved by it
• sometimes funnily enough we're in the middle of intense suffering and we're so caught up in our reactivity this is
• reactivity that we don't actually feel it consciously as suffering i mean you would say is it suffering of course it's
• it consciously as suffering i mean you would say is it suffering of course it's suffering ridiculous of course it's
• would say is it suffering of course it's suffering ridiculous of course it's suffering we know that but it's almost
• suffering ridiculous of course it's suffering we know that but it's almost like deliberately
• having a bit of space from our reactions and feeling oh this is suffering this is suffering and meeting sensing the actual
• and feeling oh this is suffering this is suffering and meeting sensing the actual suffering in it having some space and
• suffering and meeting sensing the actual suffering in it having some space and feeling the suffering in it and that can
• suffering in it having some space and feeling the suffering in it and that can allow a natural response of compassion
• sometimes it's helpful to more personalize it this is my suffering my suffering and making it oh this is my
• personalize it this is my suffering my suffering and making it oh this is my life and my suffering and bringing a
• suffering and making it oh this is my life and my suffering and bringing a sense of really holding oneself in
• week is sort of homework we took at home was when their suffering comes up whatever it is however it is physical
• consciousness opens automatically inevitably the suffering gets less
• out a description of exactly the suffering that you that you are in how what would you say to that child how

Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 16 mentions

• and translate that how you like less unnecessary suffering less difficulty less dis-ease less
• so it may be getting clearer and clearer that suffering dukkha needs the self as a kind of center of gravity
• a kind of center of gravity in a way suffering orbits and is in relationship to a sense of self
• spectrum we've been talking about when that happens the suffering the experience of suffering dukkah also goes
• that happens the suffering the experience of suffering dukkah also goes down right can we
• so that's an important insight suffering goes with the sense of self and we can actually see that
• identify with to that degree again the suffering goes out of the experience you may have found exceptions to that
• identification is enough to solidify the suffering and if we had a bit more practice with bit more skin were able to
• easier to go that way and we're suffering because we're not seeing the emptiness of it so that again horses for
• um often easier to see in what we're actually suffering with in the moment than say in a table which compare or a
• when there's craving we're not always conscious of the suffering but when there's craving that's also a good place
• emptiness when we notice craving ah so when we notice suffering sure but also when we known as craving whatever it is
• it's like a you know suffering and the world of experience is like a house of cards
• of the three characteristics touched on this the more suffering goes out the more the reactivity goes out of
• common experience just compassion holding all the suffering and it's it's very powerful very beautifully
• long-term deeper cut in in terms of one's suffering one's delusion ones tendency to build problems and self and

Freeing the Self - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 16 mentions

• four noble truths and the first truth there is suffering you know we suffer
• freedom that second truth the cause of suffering usually the buddha would give a
• shorthand answer which is suffering the cause of suffering is is tanha is is uh
• because of all that craving comes all that suffering and that's the dharma in a nutshell and
• this misunderstanding is dissolved and out out of that the suffering dissolves through that the suffering
• and out out of that the suffering dissolves through that the suffering cells
• defined tightly and problematic and it brings suffering so i go into this more later later in
• helpful to kind of take suffering and dissatisfaction in the sense of constriction imprisonment etc
• um in other words where they're suffering where there's a sense of constriction
• with these with the sense of imprisonment and the sense of suffering that i feel
• that much in that way i'm being led by the sense of suffering and a palpable sense of free freedom palpable sense of
• sense of free freedom palpable sense of suffering a palpable sense of freedom and it's not abstract it's felt and it's
• the these sites in in your consciousness when there's suffering there's some kind of issue there's some kind of thing
• of issue there's some kind of thing where suffering in relationship to a situation or a person or something in
• stuck why they're suffering there's an issue where there's an issue there's usually a
• ourselves the suffer it starts feeding back more suffering the whole feedback loop starts getting even stronger

The Meaning of Refuge - (New Year Retreat) 16 mentions

• having gone to which you gain release from all suffering and stress it's not the refuge having gone to which
• it's not the refuge having gone to which you gain release from all suffering and stress
• right at them and seeing there's dukkha there too there's suffering there too they're not what they seem to be or what
• they do not wave their hands over your head and your suffering is removed they also can't move their understanding
• understanding for ourselves what it is that leads to suffering what creates more suffering for ourselves and what
• that leads to suffering what creates more suffering for ourselves and what eases our suffering what what brings
• more suffering for ourselves and what eases our suffering what what brings freedom from suffering what brings
• eases our suffering what what brings freedom from suffering what brings actually happiness and well-being
• happiness and well-being and freedom from suffering and the intentions of goodness behind
• we realize suffering the sense of suffering in life is actually added is concocted we could
• say by the mind and the heart suffering is an extra it's the mind and the heart in its way of seeing in its
• relationship with experience that adds suffering that concocts suffering and that process can be understood it can be
• to the situation to this experience it's creating suffering and the sense of the possibility that it doesn't need to do
• that i can learn to let go of that the whole range of suffering from the most you know gruesome
• relationship and i learn how to take it apart and and ease that suffering and slowly slowly gradually the sense of
• it goes deeper and deeper and we can actually glimpse the ending of suffering through insight

Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2- The Ending of the World -... 16 mentions

• that the mind gives to things that's the root of suffering that is the root of suffering that's what the buddha
• root of suffering that is the root of suffering that's what the buddha discovered he discovered the root of
• discovered he discovered the root of suffering and when one understands it at a certain level you see how precious
• that is it's almost like everything else because we can respond to suffering look this retreat could have not gone out and
• again no suffering there in terms of the cold um but in a way that's just a band-aid
• can only hasn't gone to the root of the suffering does that make sense the the
• usually not a big deal but often on retreat we can get into suffering around this so duality they lack independent
• what have we seen we've seen that suffering is dependent on clinging okay and i've asked you this
• on clinging okay and i've asked you this and everyone nodded etc suffering is dependent on cleaning
• with a lot of prompting suffering is dependent on clinging what else do we see self-sense is dependent
• something is really a big deal and then both the self and the suffering and the substantiality thing and the thing
• yeah yeah um now suffering is the same suffering also is an appearance it's an
• um now suffering is the same suffering also is an appearance it's an appearance of things it's an appearance
• it's the emptiness so whether it's suffering or whether it's bliss equally empty equally just an appearance
• inherent existence when there is suffering these are ways of approaching or in some of what we've been talking
• necessary uh that's what's human and necessary to to address suffering so

The Self and the World - (Deepening in Wisdom) 16 mentions

• actually about self or no self or whatever it's actually about suffering and the freedom from suffering but it's
• whatever it's actually about suffering and the freedom from suffering but it's about suffering and freedom and
• and the freedom from suffering but it's about suffering and freedom and suffering
• about suffering and freedom and suffering and we can very easily get pulled into
• conceived it that way framed it that way it directed towards the end of suffering very very simple very very direct very
• so the fundamental question is about suffering and freedom from suffering not it's not the question is there a
• so again remembering that first point but the point is suffering the end of suffering it's not about dissing story
• but the point is suffering the end of suffering it's not about dissing story and disney self and being elevating
• emptiness and all that it's just it's just where's the suffering where's the freedom from suffering and just try to
• just where's the suffering where's the freedom from suffering and just try to in shed a little light on this and shake
• lead to entanglement they lead to suffering they need to look at this this unsatisfactory
• to freedom so for example we're we're suffering something's difficult we have a pain an
• the sheer humanity and experience you're suffering the sense of having actually suffering it can it can it can
• you're suffering the sense of having actually suffering it can it can it can die down a little bit it can it changes
• changes it's heaviness because we're not compounding suffering with a sense of isolation
• without even realizing it is leading to more suffering more entertainment and john spoke the other night i'm