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Notes on: * CESSATION OF SUFFERING

* Nirodha



You can end eternal suffering by ending the craving that leads

to the continuation of suffering. Remember that suffering is

caused by endlessly wanting what you don't have. So, when

you stop this endless wanting of things to not be what they

*are* you won't suffer anymore. That's not to say you won't

ever feel pain, sad, happy or ecstatic again. It's just that it

won't be the merry-go-round of; wanting it to go - wanting it to

stay - not getting it - being sad - getting it  - being happy -

changes - and wanting again.



This is the natural tendency; clinging to the pleasant and

adverse to the unpleasant. We spend most of our lives 

chasing after and clinging on to things that satisfy our desires, 

egos, lusts and trying to run away from things we find painful

and unpleasant.



If you want to suffer and waste your life stay on the merry-go-

round. It  will all take you to the end, to cessation and you

will not be any wiser for it. You will just keep repeating the

same old dreary habits, and when you die, you will not have

learned anything important in life.



What is ignorance? Not to know that *all* conditional things

are unsatisfactory is ignorance. Not to know that *all* things;

good, bad and in-between, are impermanent is ignorance.



The Third Noble Truth says that the cause of suffering can be

ended. Our struggle to survive, our effort to to prove

ourselves and solidify our relationships is unnecessary. We

and the world can get along quite comfortably with out

unnecessary posturing. We could be just be a simple, direct a

and straight-forward person. We could form a simple 

relationship with our world. We do this this abandoning *our*

expectations about how we think things should be and accept

the way things really *are*.





When you let go, then what is left is peace.


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QUOTE=shoeless

My eyes, like Jalus's fingers, are tired.

I rub my eyes.



Because You are Awake, Shoeless...


While Many Others Sleep. 




Forgive my ignorance.

I shall rest my fingers. ^I^

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All is well. A wise community is a gift.  ^I^