An Approach To Thinking

It’s been a regular claim of mine that suffering is caused by thinking. If this should be so, shouldn’t one do something about thinking? Who wants to suffer after all. The typical approach to the suffering that thinking causes is to take action against it. A frequent bit of advice, for instance, is to distract … Read More

The Internal State Of Suffering

I say often that thinking is the cause for all emotional suffering. To state it even more accurately, it is an absolute association with thinking that causes suffering. The process of suffering works this way: A thought comes up — sometimes the thought is triggered by an external event, sometimes it comes from nothing at … Read More

Recognizing Our Teachers

Do you know who your life teachers are? You know some of them certainly. Think of the people within your life, often in quite close contact with you, whom you have developed an animosity towards. These are some of your life teachers. Would like to extend them a thanks, in the same way you might … Read More