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Life is Not Suffering: Dharma Talk with Rick Hanson (video)

February 19, 2022

It is said that the Buddha teaches only suffering and its end, but what is suffering? Guest speaker Rick Hanson attempts to define this suffering, challenging that suffering is only a small part of everything that exists. Understanding this can help break the pattern of seeing meditation and mindfulness practices as a solution to suffering, rather than a practice worth immersing yourself in. While there is suffering in this world, this world is not all suffering. Rick invites all listeners to embrace this and examine their own experiences with suffering in a new light.

Recorded in our virtual zendo on January 27, 2022.

Photo by Emma Gossett on Unsplash

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