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Sufferings

• Make these contemplations completely real. This is our strength to renounce negative deeds. This is how to develop wish to be liberated.
• Meditate on sufferings of samsara. Develop a tender heart of sadness.
• Come out of meditation with a sense that you don’t want anyone to experience these sufferings.
• Suffering is reality. That is why it is called ‘Truth of Suffering’.
• Connect with the suffering. Feel helpless, sad. Then prayer becomes fervent, real.
• If you are away from suffering, you are away from dharma. The gods have so much pleasure, there is no reason to practice dharma.
• ‘I am suffering. This must come from a cause.’ The root cause is self-grasping.
• How to abandon suffering? Abandon the cause of suffering. Abandon the ten non-virtuous deeds. Cultivate virtuous actions.
• If we remember suffering, we would not dare to do non-virtuous actions.
• The teachings are not given to increase knowledge. They are given to increase disgust for samsara. Bring about an inclination to practice.
• See everything is pervaded by impermanence. Meeting ends with separation. Accumulation goes away. Then you will see that samsara is pervaded by the nature of suffering.
• Present suffering comes from past karma not exhausted.
• Nature of fire is heat. Nature of samsara is suffering. Generate renunciation.
• Suffering does not come from others. It does not come by chance.
• Contemplate suffering. Arise fear. Look for method. Immediately recite mani mantra.
• See that mothers need happiness. They are separated from happiness.
• Arise compassion. Produce genuine feeling to practice dharma. Without this, there is no growth.
• Check the difficulties in other realms.
• If you think lower realms is suffering, check the upper realms.
• Feel the suffering of this other being.
• The way to meditate on sufferings is to take upon yourself. What would I do if I was born in the hell realms? Would I be able to get out? What are the causes to be born in the hell realms? If I cannot bear the sufferings in the human realm, what would I do in hell realms? The result is that one allocates more time for practice.

Suffering of conditional nature of all phenomena:

• It is difficult to understand because it is not about pain – it is about ignorance.
• We cannot see this because we are not sensitive enough. For us it is like hair on the skin. For holy beings it is like hair in the eyes.