Quotes About Suffering

When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

nobody can go through childhood without suffering emotional pain. Even if both of your parents were enlightened, you would still find yourself growing up in a largely unconscious world.

There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.

Muchos viven con un torturador en la cabeza que continuamente los ataca y los castiga y les drena la energía vital. Esto causa sufrimiento e infelicidad así como enfermedad.

Every addiction reaches a point where it does not work for you anymore, and then you feel the pain more intensely than ever.

An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they also keep adding to it every moment whenever they ignore or deny that precious moment or reduce it to a means of getting to some future moment, which only exists in the mind, never in actuality. The

This forgetfulness is original sin, suffering, delusion. When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality. For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

La iluminación no es sólo el fin del sufrimiento y del conflicto continuo interior y exterior, sino también el fin de la temible esclavitud del pensamiento incesante.

La iluminación no es sólo el fin del sufrimiento y del conflicto continuo interior y exterior, sino también el fin de la temible esclavitud del pensamiento incesante. ¡Qué increíble liberación!

Me encanta la sencilla definición de la iluminación dada por Buda como "el fin del sufrimiento". No hay nada sobrehumano en esto, ¿cierto? Por supuesto, como toda definición, es incompleta. Sólo dice lo que la iluminación no es: no es sufrimiento. ¿Pero qué queda cuando ya no hay sufrimiento? El Buda no habla sobre esto y su silencio implica que usted tiene que averiguarlo por sí mismo.

Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento.

You forgot your main purpose. One small error, one misperception, creates a world of suffering.

When there is anger there is always pain underneath.

According to the Buddha, the human mind in its normal state generates dukkha, which can be translated as suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or just plain misery. He sees it as a characteristic of the human condition. Wherever you go, whatever you do, says the Buddha, you will encounter dukkha, and it will manifest in every situation sooner or later.

Are you defending your right to be unconscious, your right to suffer? Don't worry. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep asserting that it is okay to be sick?

the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.

After all, it continues to be true for millions of people that the greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

Many "love" relationships, after the initial euphoria has passed, actually oscillate between "love" and hate, attraction and attack. Real love doesn't make you suffer. How could it? It doesn't suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper.

I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering." There is nothing superhuman in that, is there?

If you are run by your mind, although you have no choice you will still suffer the consequences of your unconsciousness, and you will create further suffering. You will bear the burden of fear, conflict, problems, and pain. The suffering thus created will eventually force you out of your unconscious state.