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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 formations as they actually are, then one is not attached to formations. 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 The aggregate of formations includes all our habitual volitional and emotional responses to whatever information the senses are presenting to consciousness. This is where we love or hate what is happening, where we yearn for something different or accept peacefully what occurs. This is where suffering either is born or dies, depending on whether we respond in the moment with craving or with mindful equanimity. Daily Practice Suffering is not built into any given situation but is optional. Stress is not caused by external stressors but is an internal reaction to circumstances. See if you can bring the profound wisdom of this insight into your lived experience by bringing the cessation of suffering to every moment. Find what it is that you are yearning for, turn that craving into mindful observation, and watch the suffering attached to that moment disappear. Tomorrow: Cultivating Appreciative Joy One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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"In the Quaker tradition, the intuitive voice is called “the still, small voice within.” The sensing and thinking mind is always blaring, and it has something to say about everything. To hear that little voice requires a delicate tuning, and that’s what meditation is about, learning how to track that place inside. You listen the best you can, and then you act from the deepest place you can hear."

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September 13, 2025 Start Your Journey to Jhana   Whether you’re new to samatha meditation or seeking to deepen your practice, our new 10-day email series offers a clear, accessible way to learn more about the state of absorption known as jhana and to establish a strong foundation in this tradition. Journey to Jhana, beginning this Monday, September 15, is a series of 10 videos that introduces jhana, access concentration, using the jhana factors, and meditating with a nimitta—a mental sign or manifestation. Guided by meditation teacher Beth Upton, these videos will help you develop your own jhana practice and learn how to support your time on the cushion in daily life. Each day you’ll receive an email with: A short video teaching and transcript A list of topics covered in each video Related content to deepen your practice Join us on October 1 at 12pm EST for a live Q&A with Beth.   "Jhana is a Pali word that is usually translated as absorption," says Beth. "The main purpose of developing jhana is so that we have a very refined tool of mind." Learn more about the series, available free for Tricycle subscribers, and get started on Monday.   Sign up »   Also this week: If you’re local to NYC, join Ann Tashi Slater this week at Tibet House for a Q&A and book-signing to celebrate the publication of her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World.   Enjoy this video teaching on boundless love from the late Larry Ward, recorded just a month before his passing.    A new Tricycle online course starts on September 29! Learn about the lojong teachings with meditation teacher and practitioner Scott Tusa. The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars Competition: Open for Applications   Tricycle is pleased to announce our participation as a host institution for The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars competition through the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).   In 2026, the program will place up to five recent PhDs in professional positions at museums and publishers that present and interpret knowledge of Buddhist traditions. The selected Buddhism Public Scholars will use their academic knowledge and professional experience to bolster the capacity of host institutions in Buddhist art, thought, and practice in any tradition and location. The application deadline is January 27, 2026 at 9:00 PM EST. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/BuddhismPublicScholars and direct any questions to ACLS at BuddhistStudies@acls.org. Learn more and apply today » Buddhist Compassion on a Global Scale By Nancy Chu A new book tells the story of Tzu Chi and the Buddhist nun behind one of the world’s largest humanitarian movements. Read more » Just Sit as Yourself By Shunryu Suzuki Roshi This direct teaching explores renunciation, zazen, and what it means to just sit.  Read more » Golden Rock Pagoda By Daniel Ilan Cohen Thin Perched atop a 4,000-foot-tall mountain in Burma’s Mon State is the mysterious and holy Kyaiktiyo Pagoda.  Read more »

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Innate Patience There is a quality of natural, effortless, innate patience in the heart-mind of every one of us. Consciously conditioning ourselves to patience and familiarizing ourselves with it will lead us to the discovery of this natural quality.  Dza Kilung Rinpoche, “An Introduction to Post-Meditation” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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RIGHT MINDFULNESS Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling A person goes to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty place and sits down. Having crossed the legs, one sets the body erect. One establishes the presence of mindfulness. (MN 10) One is aware: “Ardent, fully aware, mindful, I am content”. (SN 47.10)   When feeling a common painful feeling, one is aware: “Feeling a common painful feeling.” When feeling an uncommon painful feeling, one is aware: “Feeling an uncommon painful feeling”. . . One is just aware, just mindful: “There is feeling.” And one abides not clinging to anything in the world. (MN 10)

Reflection Common feelings are those that come with ordinary experience, while uncommon feelings are connected with more subtle psychological and meditative experience. Remember, feelings in this context are not what we commonly think of as emotions; rather feelings refer to physical and mental sensations of pleasure and pain. Here we are directed to take note of the painful sensations with the equanimity of mindfulness. Daily Practice Pay close attention to what it feels like when something is painful, both physically and mentally, as a way of practicing the second foundation of mindfulness. This means you are not resenting or resisting the pain but merely taking an interest in it and investigating its nuances with a balanced mind. Pain need not be seen as “bad,” but rather can be explored as a different texture on the continuum of lived experience.  RIGHT CONCENTRATION Approaching and Abiding in the Second Phase of Absorption (2nd Jhāna) With the stilling of applied and sustained thought, one enters upon and abides in the second phase of absorption, which has inner clarity and singleness of mind, without applied thought and sustained thought but with joy and the pleasure born of concentration. (MN 4) Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and Abiding in the Third Jhāna Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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