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May 26, 2020
Even while you have pain in your heart, you can enjoy the many wonders of life — the beautiful sunset, the smile of a child, the many flowers and trees. To suffer is not enough. Please don’t be imprisoned by your suffering.
If you dwell only in your suffering, you will miss paradise.
With understanding and compassion, you will be able to heal the wounds in your heart, and the wounds in the world.
if you destroy your health, you have no energy left to realize the path.
recognize suffering as suffering and to transform our suffering into mindfulness, compassion, peace, and liberation.
If we touch the truth of suffering with our mindfulness, we will be able to recognize and identify our specific suffering, its specific causes, and the way to remove those causes and end our suffering.
We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war within ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.
When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.
The Buddha said that to suffer and not know that we are suffering is more painful than the burden endured by a mule carrying an unimaginably heavy load.
When you feel despair, fear, or depression, it may be because you have ingested too many toxins through your sense impressions.
We don’t want to suffer, but our deep-seated habit energies drag us into the fire of suffering.
We are happy as we walk, happy as we sit, and happy as we eat when we know how to stay in the present moment and stop the thinking.
we tend to blame others for our unhappiness.
There are things that even a child can see but we ourselves cannot see because we are imprisoned by our notions.
When we are able to identify our suffering and see its causes, we will have more peace and joy, and we are already on the path to liberation.
When we use the word “suffering” in Buddhism, we mean the kind of suffering that can show us the way out.
“Why do you only talk to your clients about suffering? Why not help them touch the seeds of happiness that are also there?”
If we do not have peace and joy at this moment, we can at least remember some peace and joy we experienced in the past or observe the peace and joy of others.
We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for!
If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.
Transformation is gradual, but once we see clearly the causes of our suffering, we can make the effort to change our behavior and bring our suffering to an end.
If we are afraid to touch our suffering, we will not be able to realize the path of peace, joy, and liberation.
