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Four Steps to Avoid Suffering · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many people suppose that it is impossible to avoid suffering as
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  it is an inherent aspect of life on Earth their strategies for
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  dealing with suffering may vary. But they all believe that
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  suffering is inevitable when we consider therefore.
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  The idea of avoiding suffering we are either met with a large
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  degree of skepticism about the possibility.
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  Rose with imaginary ideas about what this entails.
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  People think that one can be rich respected, have everything,
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  the heart desires live in a perfect circumstance and there
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  would not be suffering eventually they find out that
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  these external circumstances do not.
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  In fact, eliminate suffering at all, as the Buddha pointed out,
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  in His Four Noble Truths suffering is attached to life in
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  the body, through illness, frustrated, desire, Old age and
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  death, what sages and seers have.
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  Discovered, however, is that while it is not possible to
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  avoid the fate of the body and life and all forms of external
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  suffering, which attend the bodily life, it is possible to
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  remove the subjective suffering. This comes from tuning and
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  aligning the mind and heart to the larger reality that is not
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  attached to the You go personality and the desire soul
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  that is never satisfied. Eventually, the sages have
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  pointed out that the focus of the mind and thought the filter
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  we apply and the affinities, we accept create the psychological
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  reality. We experience the example of the
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  evil mind found in the dhammapada is illustrative, this
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  is not a moral judgment. But rather a statement of the
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  focus of the mind on forces and actions that bring about an
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  increase in distress or Suffering for oneself or others
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  as everyone participates as parts of the universal
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  manifestation. When one engages in greed, lust
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  and envy jealousy, or any of the other deformations of the Mind
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  suffering in Sue's focusing on Harmony Goodwill compassion, and
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  other forms of manifestation of love and unification.
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  Bring about peace, calm and a mind that need not suffer
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  regardless of the outer circumstances to which one is
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  subjected. In the book, commentaries on the
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  dhammapada. The mother provides insight into
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  a number of verses from this classical Buddhist texts.
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  The dhammapada states, quote, if a man speaks or acts with an
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  evil mind suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof
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  for the Bullock that pulls the cart in quote.
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  The mother comments quote that is to say ordinary human life,
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  such as it is in the present world is ruled by the Mind.
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  Therefore, the most important thing is to control one's mind.
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  So we shall follow a graded or conjugate discipline to use the
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  dhammapada is expression in order to develop and control our
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  minds. There are four movements which
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  are usually consecutive, but which in the end may be
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  simultaneous. To observe one's thoughts is the
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  first to watch over one's thoughts as the second to
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  control one's thoughts. As the third And to master one's
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  thoughts is the fourth to observe to watch over to control
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  to master. All that to get rid of an evil
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  mind for. We are told that the man who
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  acts or speaks with an evil mind is followed by suffering as
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  closely as the wheel follows the hoof with a bullock that plows
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  were draws the cart and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother living within the yoga approach to psychological health
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  and growth, disturbances of Mind unruly and perturbing thoughts
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