Most of the psychological suffering we humans experience is voluntary and self-inflicted. That was one of the Buddha’s greatest discoveries. It’s a stage of human development we can’t skip; we all go through it and it’s entirely natural. And that’s exactly what I keep coming back to – that we believe in thoughts that want to harm us. Thoughts that make it hard, heavy and complicated to be you and me. Somewhere inside, whether consciously or subconsciously, we know a lot of the things that are difficult in our lives are caused by our own thoughts. Our psychological suffering is for the most
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