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......These four facts of life are meant to be known, understood,

and realized, seen as they are. Knowing the bare fact that things

are dissatisfying won't free us from dissatisfaction. The crucial

part is knowing the Second Noble Truth, which is the cause of

that dissatisfaction — not the things themselves, since the

things themselves don't suffer; it is we who suffer. The cause of

that suffering is clinging, attachment, greed, desire, resistance,

fixation — whatever you want to call it. It is often called craving.

The word literally is tanha in Pali (samudaya in Sanskrit), which

suggests thirst. Because we crave, continually desire and thirst

for various experiences and things, and because created things

are never ultimately satisfying, we suffer. That's where the chain

of suffering can be addressed: whether or not we cling to things

and crave for experience. It's not that we have to get rid of the

things themselves. Things are not the problem. It is the

attachment, the identification with things that causes suffering.

Tilopa wrote, " It is not outer objects which entangle us. It is inner

clinging which entangles us. "

 

http://www.Dzogchen.org/teachings/talks/ndt06.htm

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