Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering
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For each of the Four Noble Truths there are three aspects, which form a paradigm of reflection, investigation, and then “insight” (a profound recognition).
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Why do you suffer? Is there a purpose to your pain? What about the amount of suffering you experience—is it fair, based on some understandable system of cause and effect, or is it simply arbitrary? Can you affect how much you suffer? If so, how?
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The path to happiness and a sense of well-being in this very life lies not in avoiding suffering but in using the conscious, embodied, direct experience of it as a vehicle to gain deep insight into the true nature of life and your own existence.