"The purpose [of the Buddha's teachings] is to help us create happiness. And to find a happiness that lies even deeper that doesn't have to be created. But to find that happiness, to develop the path to that happiness, we have to understand suffering. And that means we have to understand what our minds are doing right now to create suffering. Because that's the suffering that weighs the mind down.
The pains that come in from outside, the misfortunes out there in the world: they don't have to make us suffer. It's what we do as we find out about them and we deal with them: That's where the suffering comes that weighs us down. So [when] we understand this process well then we don't have to suffer that way." ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Genuine Happiness", 14min mp3 audio,
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