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Via Daily Dharma: Unmasking the Ego-Mind

 When you challenge ego-mind, be firm but gentle, penetrating but never aggressive. Just say to your ego-mind, “Show me your face!” When no mind shows up saying, “Here I am,” ego-mind will begin to lose its hold on you and your struggles will lighten up.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, “Searching for Self”

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering

 

RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering

What is the cessation of suffering? It is the remainderless fading away and ceasing, the giving up, relinquishing, letting go, and rejecting of craving. (MN 9) When one knows and sees thoughts as they actually are, then one is not attached to thoughts. When one abides unattached, one is not infatuated, and one’s craving is abandoned. One’s bodily and mental troubles are abandoned, and one experiences bodily and mental well-being. (MN 149)

Reflection

Since suffering is caused by craving, the cessation of craving brings about the end of suffering. We have seen how this works for each of the sense modalities, and now we turn to the mind as the sixth pathway of experience. We are attached to certain thoughts—usually the ones that feel good—and we struggle against others, which results in a lot of mental troubles. We gain well-being by letting go of both forms of craving.

Daily Practice

Right view can be a practice in itself, a practice of gaining insight into the nature of our experience. Seeing thoughts as they actually are, as arising and passing conditioned events, helps us get free of attachment to them. Thoughts are not wrong, but we suffer in direct proportion to our infatuation with them. Craving can be relinquished, if only for a moment. Abandon bodily and mental troubles and get free—if only for a moment.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Appreciative Joy
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

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