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  • three categories: the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change and all-pervasive suffering.
  • Suffering of suffering refers to things such as headaches and so forth. Even animals recognize this kind of suffering and, like us, want to be free from it. Because beings have fear of and experience discomfort from these kinds of suffering, they engage in various activities to eliminate them.
  • Suffering of change refers to situations where, for example, we are sitting very comfortably relaxed and at first, everything seems all right, but after a while we lose that feeling and get restless and uncomfortable.
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  • If it is a cause that can be overcome, is it possible for us to overcome it? Thus we come to the second noble truth, the truth of the cause of suffering.
  • the Buddha taught that the root of the three sufferings is the third: all-pervasive suffering.
  • This third, all-pervasive, suffering is under the control of karma and the disturbing mind.
  • All our suffering can be traced back to these aggregates of attachment and clinging.
  • according to the Buddhist viewpoint, that’s not the case; your consciousness will continue.
  • f you really want to get rid of all your suffering, all the difficulties you experience in your life, you have to get rid of the fundamental cause that gives rise to the aggregates that are the basis of all suffering. Killing yourself isn’t going to solve your problems.
  • investigate the cause of suffering: is there a cause or not?
  • Generally, the ultimate cause is the mind; the mind that is influenced by negative thoughts such as anger, attachment, jealousy and so forth is the main cause of birth and all such other problems.
  • Thus, through investigation we find no valid support for the grasping mind but do find the support of logical reasoning for the mind that realizes that the grasping mind is invalid.
  • first there’s attachment to the self,
  • which is then followed by grasping at things and becoming attached to them as “mine.”4
  • Thus ultimately, the problem is this feeling of “I”
  • There’s nothing good about anger and attachment; nothing good can result from them. They may be difficult to control, but everybody can realize that there is nothing good about them. This, then, is the second noble truth.
  • the question arises whether or not these kinds of negative mind can be eliminated.
  • The truth of the cessation of suffering
  • If, upon investigation, we discover many other, valid ways of looking at things and that all these contradict, or negate, the way that the mind that grasps at true existence perceives its objects, we can say that this mind does not see reality.
  • try to determine whether the mind that grasps at things as truly findable is correct or not.
  • Middle Way schools contain many lines of reasoning for carrying out such investigation.6
  • All-pervasive suffering is the third type of suffering. It is called all-pervasive [Tib: kyab-pa du-che kyi dug-ngäl—literally, the suffering of pervasive compounding] because it acts as the basis of the first two.
  • When we eliminate the disturbing negative minds, the cause of all suffering, we eliminate the sufferings as well. This is liberation, or the cessation of suffering: the third noble truth.
  • path to the cessation of suffering
  • David McGavock on 10 Mar 14
     
    "His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave this teaching in Dharamsala, 7 October 1981. It was translated by Alexander Berzin, clarified by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, edited by Nicholas Ribush and first published in the souvenir booklet for Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre's Second Dharma Celebration, November 5-8 1982, New Delhi, India. Published in 2005 in the LYWA publication Teachings From Tibet."
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