The Goodness of Suffering

Prepared for the G.B.M.G.

The Goodness of Suffering: Original Fear

Every day we take a few mo ments to contemplate each exercise as we follow our breath.

We practice the Five Remembrances so that the seed of fear can circulate. We must invite it up to be recognized, to be embraced.

And then when it goes back down again, it becomes smaller.

When we invite our seed of fear up like this, we will be better equipped to take care of our anger. Fear gives life to anger.

We don’t have peace when fear is there, so it becomes the soil in which anger can grow. Fear is based on ignorance.

Lack of un derstanding is also a primary cause of anger. By TNH

The Five Subjects for Contemplation

“Some day this body will be a corpses”

“There are these five facts that one should reflect on often”

1. ‘I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.’ This is the first fact that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.

2. ‘I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.’ …

3. ‘I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death.’ …

4. ‘I will grow different, separate from all that is dear and appealing to me.’ …

5. ‘I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.’ …

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