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Cittamatra - (Meditation on Emptiness) 14 mentions

• little bit and the point is um letting go of suffering that's the point so that's that's always the point
• of dharma practice letting go of suffering freeing ourselves from suffering to to more to deeper and
• suffering freeing ourselves from suffering to to more to deeper and deeper degrees and more and more
• of teachings over why you see that suffering needs the self as a kind of center of the solar system it's like it
• lighter and more open more refined the sense of suffering gets less this is an obvious connection or a
• moment as not me not mine well the suffering gets less so all this is um telling us what most of you have
• hard even to see the connection that self and suffering went together necessarily
• right now what do you suffer with what are you suffering with what makes you suffer in the course of
• or we find yourself in life craving something it doesn't look like suffering but we enter into a relationship but
• sooner or later with that thing causes suffering so i want a really tasty meal it's important for me to have a tasty
• relationship there's craving there it doesn't look like suffering from the outside
• but this suffering because of inherent existence and because
• report as i do that suffering decreases there's a kind of letting go and with the letting go comes
• three characteristics are ways of looking that let go of suffering but another thing that might happen with

An Introduction to Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 14 mentions

• cause of our our dis-ease in life are unnecessary suffering delusion and ignorance what is that
• in other words i might really want to be rid of suffering i might really want to be rid of misery and this or that
• but and i got i feel like i very much got sucked into the suffering of that and then there's something occurring to
• countries are a human social convention and and how much suffering in the history of humanity has been over
• isn't that agreement then there are the problems there's a suffering in this war and this conflict
• into emptiness right where we feel the suffering in our life right where we feel the discontent
• life and they were really really in quite a state with it really suffering quite no idea what i'm going to do with
• do with my life locked into that and suffering with the solidity and the abstraction of it
• to pay close attention to the things that i'm suffering over or the things i'm craving
• of the best ways to say is going actually via the suffering and via what what actually helps in relationship to
• existence and it's empty when i see its emptiness the suffering goes out of something
• still functions and it still has conventional existence but the suffering goes out and that as practitioners is
• but it's very important the suffering the greed the aversion what we call the chilesas in in in pali
• that's fine but they actually turn out they are suffering and the presence of greed and aversion depend on conceiving

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 14 mentions

• well-wishing but also desire for decreasing suffering we could say in ourselves and hopefully in the world if
• communicates something about the end of suffering uh family all right granted it's
• craving gender hit agenda to the end of suffering etc the different kinds of clinging that would outline
• having to do or in terms of and decreasing suffering or freedom or whatever liberation
• either in the hmong or eventually to the the the less suffering or unwholesome so we can make that distinct from wholesome
• and unwholesome ones being ones that actually lead to more suffering that's one distinction but actually
• contribution to global warming and other people suffering in the world if i'm really honest i can see that's
• yes there's ease there's the ease of suffering that we're after and what and what
• which will which will be more useful of the suffering that's inherent in discrepancy based processing
• reduction or they lead to even eventually a reduction of suffering for self and other but other other desires
• has nothing to do with um releasing suffering and then what can sometimes happen if a
• and this will bring ease this will decrease or even end your suffering if you can do that
• also be constrained and not just constrained because certain sufferings won't happen constrained in all kinds of
• chunder this um intentionality uh or desire for reducing suffering for what is wholesome

Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge - (Unbinding the Heart) 13 mentions

• and the buddha talks about end of suffering etc it cannot be gotten anywhere near without this deep inquiry
• self can get built and and there will be suffering with that so in some of the tradition actually in
• building experience building self-building suffering to have to be very very careful with
• we're talking about the personality self getting built how is it that suffering gets built when i get into you know
• gets built when i get into you know stress and suffering with something and entangled and it's painful that has been
• that the mind and its relationship and its views has built that suffering is built
• this is this was the buddha's you know great and fundamental insight suffering is built
• experience also is built not just suffering and self but experience too is built
• with uncovering what it is that the mind does that builds suffering and self and experience say that again practice is
• uncovering what it is in the mind that builds suffering and self and experience and then learning to actually not build
• the mind which ends up building suffering building self more and building experience and appearances of
• not building or not building generally not building suffering trusting not building suffering trust in not building
• not building suffering trusting not building suffering trust in not building the self trust in not building solidity

Emotional Healing (Part Two) - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 13 mentions

• ourselves in a situation with someone else and they're suffering a lot and for some reason we're not feeling anything
• or whatever the more self more suffering more self-preoccupation more suffering
• more suffering more self-preoccupation more suffering and sometimes the point comes when it's
• and we see then that there's a lot of suffering here's this pain in my knee let's say and i'm immediately thinking i
• and why me a lot of story a lot of suffering not only a lot of suffering but a lot of
• suffering not only a lot of suffering but a lot of intensity of the actual experience
• experience suffering gets a little less like if i keep going with my practice
• pull what i notice even less suffering but also
• none at all no suffering and actually nothing happening literally talking a very deep
• and there's a fading of the experience and the fading of the suffering if we have a model of stuff coming up
• any experience in a way that actually builds not only the suffering but also the experience itself so if i really get
• all hit up and really involve my story the suffering is more and the experience is more and i learned to let that go and
• knee when they're meditating and you can learn to relate to it so that suffering goes out of it but the pain is still

Introduction and Guided Enquiry - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 13 mentions

• heard teachers myself included say suffering comes from clinging suffering comes from desire
• go suffering he said you could choose many of the buddha's quotes but just around
• relationship between desire and suffering i don't need to have a big subtle attention and be able to pay
• along a certain track and that track and their imprisonment is bringing suffering it's clear it's very clear
• sermon because what is suffering he says not getting what you want not getting what
• getting what you want not getting what you desire is suffering that's clear i want something i don't get it it's
• want something i don't get it it's suffering so all this is there uh in in the teachings it's very clear
• like all others it brings suffering it's an attempt to escape what is
• experimenting with this the desire leads to suffering is that is that really my okay
• non-nourishing of desire also brings suffering so it's a big question
• would be impossible to get that so it would be suffering i could never achieve that or get that
• teachings we hear something like desire clinging bring suffering as i said earlier they bring suffering so drop
• clinging bring suffering as i said earlier they bring suffering so drop them drop them

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 3) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 13 mentions

• noble truths that craving brings suffering and releasing craving brings a reduction in suffering
• suffering and releasing craving brings a reduction in suffering just that much that is assumed to be a
• um the ground of rebirth being equated with suffering and then the release of suffering liberation nubana
• equated with suffering and then the release of suffering liberation nubana is coming out of not being reborn again
• a buddhist is it to freedom from suffering is it to something else foreign
• helping something else or even reducing suffering so all these go with it we've talked about before yes the moral
• of the imaginal yes the decrease in suffering in different ways and yes the intellectual component but
• which was expand our sense of what do we mean by suffering and what do we mean by awakening
• especially now if if we cannot uh assume that everyone believes suffering is just being in on the realm of rebirth from
• reborn again then the whole notions of suffering and awakening are become more open to
• and it's possible to expand what we mean and and by by sufferings we talked about what including the suffering of
• and and by by sufferings we talked about what including the suffering of soullessness
• that desire unless it's desire for compassion and liberation from suffering is basically bad and i'm not worthy

No Self, No World - (IMS Forest Refuge) 13 mentions

• is not self or not self or this or that it's actually suffering or not suffering
• it's actually suffering or not suffering suffering or less suffering and that is
• or not suffering suffering or less suffering and that is is a much more fundamental and important
• fundamental question is in this situation in this this suffering that's arising what is it out of all my
• possible responses and ways of looking that would lead to less suffering for myself and for other and what leads to
• terms of not self and disidentifying actually decreases the suffering but it might be that what's needed in that
• mean by saying the fundamental question is about suffering it's not about self and i think if we explore this as human
• ways of conceiving yourself in the world lead to suffering and which ways lead to freedom
• lead to entanglement to dukkha to disease to suffering to complication and some concepts lead to compassionly
• or a sadness or whatever only i have this kind of suffering only me that view that concept will lead to a
• tightening and an increase of the suffering verses and i think i said this in the in the reflection the other
• morning seeing the commonality the commonality of suffering others share this too that concept that view actually
• leads to a an opening a lessening of the weight of the suffering you know things like the four noble

On the Nature of Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 13 mentions

• preface the whole thing whether we're consciously suffering at any time or not at times there's no
• any time or not at times there's no obvious suffering going on whether we are or we are we can always
• mind or awareness is the deepest level of practice it's like cutting suffering at the root
• cutting of the the level of kind of existential suffering in life and it's interesting it's not even
• important question and i had said something about suffering being empty as well and quite right but
• way of looking it's a way of looking so we pick up and put down suffering is empty we pick up and put down as i said
• freedom and compassion so for example that suffering is empty if i just kind of blab that suffering is empty and i
• that suffering is empty if i just kind of blab that suffering is empty and i don't really have a deep seeing of what
• knowing there will be suffering when there is a center to the knowing
• when there is a center to the knowing there will be suffering and he said that was a real turning point in his practice
• there is a center to the knowing there is suffering might mean when there is a center in the self when i identify with
• different levels when there is a center to the knowing then there is suffering that could mean if i take the center of
• and the ones that are really going to do the trick in terms of cutting suffering its root

Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 13 mentions

• there is that they are they bring a decrease in suffering in the moment you actually feel to some degree more at
• actually feel to some degree more at ease more free less suffering in the moment that's important as a skillful
• abiding learning in this moment how can i abide with less suffering that's really really important the skillful
• extracting conclusions from that practice that suffering was dependent on a certain way of looking but self-sense
• experience very very simply and learn to untangle the suffering from it on
• on take away the supports for the suffering in it but also for the experience itself
• with my experience and learning how to take away the supports for suffering there and actually to experience itself
• phenomenological approach just about experience and how is the suffering and the experience both
• there and just trusting as i said where suffering is in one's practice and going deeper and deeper with that and not
• all part of what fades so partly you know we talked about suffering fades self-sense fades substantiality fades
• sense of things are wholesome if they lead to my freedom from suffering and my well-being and and that of others then
• unwholesome is that which leads to my suffering and the suffering of others and it's just a sense of becoming more
• happiness comes from a lot of our suffering comes from uh feeding the unwholesome as we