Abandon Suffering: Gradually, Step by Step | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Singapore Wat Palelai

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Sunday evening Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha during his visit to Singapore at Wat Palelai.

We can all relate to the problem of suffering, as we all know the experience of pain, frustration and hurt in our own heart. That's why the Buddha's teaching is timeless and universal.

So is his analysis that the deep cause of suffering is craving (tanhā), which we can also experience directly ourselves in our mind.

If we abandon craving, we can free our heart from all suffering, including old age death and rebirth, forever! This is the mindblowingly positive message the Buddha has for us: Total freedom from death and suffering can be realized!

However, it's so important to understand that the solution, namely abandoning craving, can not be implemented immediately, or by an act of will power. Abandoning craving is done by gradually training ourselves in developing the whole noble eightfold path.

We have to create good karma, accumulate puñña, to gradually fill our heart with more and more light and goodness.

We keep precepts, maintain these minimum ethical standards in all our actions by body and speech (including all forms of modern intenet communication like social media), to prevent any bad karma to weigh down our mind.

Only once this basis of goodness is firmly established, are we able to really train the heart in samādhī (concentration/unification of heart) and vipassana (insight/wisdom).

The tranquility and joy of samādhi weakens the defilements sufficiently that wisdom can finally reach deep enough into our mind to totally extirpate all craving and suffering, and the supreme release of Nibbāna is realized.

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