Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Not.

Due To Our Feelings Arising From Contact, We Think And We Rationalize, Conceptualize, Theorize, Philosophize And Speculate. Because Of The Feeling Arising From The Six Senses, We Increase Our Desire; We Come To Wrong Views And Wrong Beliefs. We Recall Our Past Sights, Smells, Sounds, Tastes, Touches And Ideas And Build Up More Desires, Thoughts, Concepts, Beliefs, Ideas, Theories And Philosophies.

Deeply Buried In The Mind, There Lies A Mechanism That Accepts What The Mind Experiences As Beautiful And Pleasant And Rejects Those Experiences That Are Perceived As Ugly And Painful. This Mechanism Gives Rise To Those States Of Mind That We Are Training Ourselves To Avoid-- Things Like Greed, Lust, Hatred, Aversion, And Jealousy.

The Present Moment Is Changing So Fast That We Often Do Not Notice Its Existence At All. Every Moment Of Mind Is Like A Series Of Pictures Passing Through A Projector. Some Of The Pictures Come From Sense Impressions. Others Come From Memories Of Past Experiences Or From Fantasies Of The Future.

They Have No Power Over You. It's All A Show, A Deception. Your Urges Scream And Bluster At You; They Cajole; They Coax; They Threaten; But They Really Carry No Stick At All. You Give In Out Of Habit. You Give In Because You Never Really Bother To Look Beyond The Threat. It Is All Empty Back There. There Is Only One Way To Learn This Lesson, Though. The Words On This Page Won't Do It.

Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Not.