True happiness..
is not the opposite of sorrow,
it includes all sorrow and suffering. 
(Nisargadatta)
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It has been said that there is no greater education than matriculating through the “University of Hard Knocks.” Many, who have passed through the crucible of suffering will acknowledge that they have found themselves infinitely better for the experience—bitter though it may have been.

I walked a mile with Pleasure.
She chatted all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne’er a word said she;
But oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!
 ( Robert Browning Hamilton)
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WISDOM OF AJAHN CHAH
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 ''There are two kinds of suffering: the suffering that leads to more suffering and the suffering that leads to the end of suffering.

 If you are not willing to face the second kind of suffering, you will surely continue to experience the first."

 Achaan Chah's way of teaching is usually straightforward and direct. When he meets his monks on the monastery grounds, he often asks, "Are you suffering much today?" If one answers yes, he replies, 'Well, you must have many attachments today," and then laughs with the monk about it.
 Have you ever had happiness? Have you ever had suffering? Have you ever considered which of these is really valuable? If happiness is true, then it should not dissolve, should it?

 You should study this point to see what is real, what is true. This study, this meditation, leads to right understanding.

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"When you are mindful of your reaction... 

of wanting things/people to be other than they are....

 you acknowledge the cause of suffering."
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Don't speak of your suffering -- He is speaking.
Don't look for Him everywhere -- He's looking for you.
- Sanai -

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Suffering

"Suffering is the price of being alive.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Wisdom comes only through suffering.
To become spectator of one`s own life...

is to escape the suffering of life."

Buddha....Four Noble Truths

How to reach Enlightenment in this lifetime?
Many sects and traditions will have different practices.. but all have these as their basis:
1.The world is full of suffering and stress.
2.The cause of this suffering and stress is desires of physical instincts.
3.If desires can be removed, suffering and stress will be ended.
4.Desires can be removed by following the Eightfold Noble Path:
Right Views,
Right Thoughts,
Right Speech,
Right Conduct,
Right Livelihood,
Right Effort,
Right Mindfulness,
Right Concentration..
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Evil and Pain

"Do you understand a simple fact - evil and pain are the same thing. There's so much to think about.......
Evil and suffering are exactly the same thing, where you have one you have the other.
You get rid of one and you'll get rid of the other. You want to get rid of your pain, your suffering,your heartache?
Get rid of your evil."
Do you agree?
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(Source:A Flight to a Higher Place)

Peace of Mind: The Truth Beyond Success and Failure

It does not matter to a man of awareness whether he is successful or unsuccessful, well-known or absolutely unknown, powerful or just a nobody. To a man of awareness, these dualities don't matter at all, because awareness is the greatest treasure. When you have it, you don't want anything else. You don't want to become the president or prime minister of a country.

Those who pursue power suffer even in success - they live in the eternal fear that they might lose it. At first they suffered because they were not successful; now after being successful, too, they are suffering because of a feeling of insecurity.

Moreover, they have no private space; everyone wants to meet with them and there are some who are engaged in the task of "overthrowing" them.The life of a successful man is not a life of peace. But in failure, too, there is no peace.
For an aware person, it is all the same. Success comes and goes, and so does failure. He remains untouched and aloof. ..
This is the experience of an awakened man. He lives in the darkest of nights in the same silence, in the same peace, as he lives in the brightest day. He remains above divisions. "Such is his power, that actions can't hold him....According to the Bodhi-dharma, a Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune or adverse circumstances.

Misery comes to him and he finds in it something blissful; sadness comes to him and he finds something immensely beautiful and silent in it. Death comes to him but he finds only immortality in it. And that is the greatest power in the world - not power over anybody, but simply your intrinsic power.

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(Source: Osho)

I Asked God

I asked God to take away my pain.

God said No..

It is not for me to take away,

but for you to it give up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.

God said No..

His spirit is whole, His body is only temporary.

I asked God to grant me patience.

God said No..

Patience is a by-product of tribulations;

It is not granted, it is earned.

I asked God to give me happiness.

God said No..

I give you blessings,

happiness is up to you.

I asked God to spare the pain.

God said No..

Suffering draws you apart from wordly cares

and brings you closer to me.....

I asked God to make my spirit grow,

God said No..

You must grow on your own,

I will prune you to make you fruitful

I asked God for all things that I might enjoy.

God said No..

I will give you life so that you enjoy all things.

I asked God to help me LOVE others

as much as You love me.

God said...Ahhh,

at last, you have the idea..

(source : Internet )

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Suffering

"The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, old age is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings.

To meet a man whom one hates is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering.

In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with distress. This is called the Truth of Suffering.
The cause of human suffering is undoubtedly found in the thirsts of the physical body and in the illusions of worldly passion.

If these thirsts and illusions are traced to their source, they are found to be rooted in the intense desires of physical instincts.
If desire, which lies at the root of all human passion, can be removed, then passion will die out and all human suffering will be ended."

Please share your views.
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Ego

"The ego and the Self dwell as intimate friends in the same body, like two golden birds perched in the same tree. The ego eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree, while the Self looks on detached.

For as long as you identify with the ego, you will feel joy and sorrow. But if you know you are the Self, the Lord of Life, the supreme source of light; the supreme source of love, you will be free from suffering;

You will transcend duality and live in a state of Oneness."

~ Upanishad ~

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Recipe For Suffering

"I feel great compassion not for those who die, but rather for the inherently broken way we’re socially conditioned to view death. We’re taught to root ourselves to the temporary....

— the perfect recipe for guaranteed suffering."

~ Steve Pavlina

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Just Think

"To love is to suffer.To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving.

Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.

To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one

must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
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'It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust'

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