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Happy Wednesday and welcome to another Wake Up Wednesday!

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The Cause of Suffering 😓

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If there is one thing we all have in common is that we suffer in life. Even the ones who no longer suffer have, at some point, suffered. To be one of the no-longer-sufferers we have to get to the cause of suffering followed by a visceral understanding that there is actually no reason to suffer.
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When we talk about suffering we don’t mean the stubbed-your-toe kind but the psychological-torment kind of suffering. Stubbing your toe is pain. Telling yourself that you’re an idiot and being full of regret that you didn’t pay better attention is suffering.
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Although most of us are aware of the fact that we suffer, not many find a way out. Many of us try to escape suffering but usually turn towards the wrong things and work on the wrong construction sites. And most just learn how to live with it by numbing it with everything available.
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Instead of simplifying we like to complicate. We assume (even if subconsciously) progress toward the end of suffering equates with our ability to understand ever more complex teachings. That’s a problem I would say.
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What is important, however, is understanding the root cause of suffering. If you’re reading this then I assume you’ve already read stuff on the cause of suffering. You might have even heard different people talking about different causes of suffering. Some might have resonated more with you, some less. But the only real cause of suffering in your life is the one you can see by actually looking deeply at and into your life.
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Clearly seeing the cause of suffering is a vital step to end suffering. And although our whole organism shuns suffering, we tend to hold onto it as if our life depends on it. And we’re right our life does depend on it, at least what we assume our life to be.
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Seeing why you suffer can be deeply disturbing because you’ll see that the cause of your suffering is literally everything you hold dear and deem important and necessary. So, what you need is a willingness to be disturbed, which in the context of awakening is nothing to be avoided but something to be sought.
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Although there is only one cause for suffering, this cause can be looked at from many different angles and talked about in many different ways. And this is what we’re going to do here. We’re going to state the cause of human suffering in so many ways that, hopefully, by reading this something will resonate and make sense to you. When it does you’ll be able to make this insight your own and turn it into a weapon to slash your way out of delusion.
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I also want to emphasize that in most cases it’s not enough to look into the cause of suffering only once. Usually, it’s a process. In my experience, suffering intensifies and weakens before it drops away.
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All the emotional garbage and wrong ideas we carry around are like a planetary-sized ball of yarn that needs to be unraveled. You see this huge ball of yarn and you don’t understand what’s going on. The yarn winds and twists and there are knots, and it seems like an impossible task to unravel it. But with every sincere look, you are further taking this ball apart, until all that’s left is just a string of yarn. Then nothing is hidden, everything is clear, and the yarn is a calm unintimidating piece of string gently waving along.
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