Teaching #3 - The Truth of Ending Dissatisfaction

There is a way out of this messiness

There is a way out of the continual suffering/dissatisfaction we experience.

Great news, right?

“Hell, yeah… I’m in! Where do I sign?”

Although no magic pill will stop the endless highs and lows, we can change our relationship with it and be free of its effect on us.

But first, we need to understand what cause the highs and lows we spoke of earlier.

The problem is not that we experience the highs and lows; it’s that we expect them not to occur. We become attached to the unrealistic expectations that we should be immune from or —in the case of the religious— that we should be protected from these extremes of life’s experiences by an omniscient and omnipresent being or force who we expect to make smooth path before us.

Yeah, not so much, right?

⛩️ Instead, the way out isn’t magic or some incantation or chant, but doing the inner work of observing how we make the attachments; when we understand why do this, we can eliminating that habit and thus our dissatisfaction.

The Buddha not only figured this out, but he also laid out a path to follow that lead to the abasence of dissatisfaction.

That’s the fourth teaching, the Truth of Ending Dissatisfaction