{"id":284,"date":"2021-10-19T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meditative.dev\/web\/?p=284"},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:34:50","slug":"fueling-insight-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meditative.dev\/web\/2021\/10\/19\/fueling-insight-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueling Insight: Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"284\" class=\"elementor elementor-284\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-53a6090 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"53a6090\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bcb92ab\" data-id=\"bcb92ab\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-de76d0b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"de76d0b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-01930a5\" data-id=\"01930a5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-190a4df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"190a4df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 09-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>This week we&#8217;re continuing our work getting into the nuts and bolts of insight practice. Recall that last week I mentioned how we change our relationship with ourselves and the world by provoking insights about the nature of experience, and that we do that by collecting evidence about three aspects of experience: impermanence, suffering\/unsatisfactoriness and no-self.<\/p><p>The second aspect of experience we need to collective evidence on is suffering or unsatisfactoriness. There isn&#8217;t really a great translation into English and &#8216;suffering&#8217; can sometimes sound too extreme for what we&#8217;re referring to here.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c8ee222\" data-id=\"c8ee222\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8391136 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8391136\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 09-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/meditative.dev\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/publicdomainq-grandfather-headache-193x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-286\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meditative.dev\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/publicdomainq-grandfather-headache-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/meditative.dev\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/publicdomainq-grandfather-headache.png 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c3c861 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c3c861\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ed1cea7\" data-id=\"ed1cea7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80900dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"80900dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0I&#8217;ll take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mctb.org\/mctb2\/table-of-contents\/part-i-the-fundamentals\/5-the-three-characteristics\/\">Daniel Ingram&#8217;s definition<\/a> here because it&#8217;s a good one:<\/p><h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The second aspect of dukkha [unsatisfactoriness\/suffering in Pali] is the key for insight practices, and that is the inherent painful tension that comes because we take the sensate data coming in and misinterpret those sensations in a way that causes us to habitually create the illusion of a permanent, separate, independently functioning (acausal), localized self.<\/h5><div>Just by reading this it&#8217;s probably not going to be clear how such a thing works or how we work with it. 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