Suffering

Nagarjuna wrote this poem as a letter to his friend, King Gautamiputra, as advice on the practice of the entire Buddhist path leading to liberation for both householders and monastics.

The basic framework for the Buddhist teachings.

A Q&A with Dr. Berzin’s students about various aspects of our daily lives and how Buddhism addresses them.

Renunciation is the determination to be free of our sufferings and their causes. When focused on others, with the determination that they be free, this is compassion.

The path to lasting happiness avoids the pitfalls of acting out of ignorance and eliminates instead the confusion causing all our suffering.

The way to avoid suffering is to hold ourselves back from acting out of ignorance, anger or greed.

The lam-rim, or graded stages of the Buddhist path, take us from an ordinary limited being to a fully enlightened Buddha.

The true suffering in life that we all face is that, with the types of limited bodies and minds that we have, we perpetuate our problems.

The true causes of our true sufferings are our belief in a false reality and unawareness that it is mere fantasy, plus the disturbing emotions and compulsive behavior that they generate.

With a true cessation of the true causes of true sufferings, none of the true sufferings can ever recur again.