On Taking Care of Suffering

Brother Phap Dung gives a teaching on suffering and the ways in which we can harness it to our own benefit. “The way out of suffering is to touch suffering”, he says and invites us to stop, look at the cause of our suffering, understand it, not to judge it or criticise it, but to embrace it like a mother embraces her baby. Learning how to suffer is an art – the more we will suppress it, box it or tie it into a knot, the more it will grow; the gentler we become in relation to it, the more our wound will stop bleeding.

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