Speaker 1
That's how it arises. So if you say, i refuse to be happy until there's no more suffering in this world. So the end of suffering, then, i'm waiting for it out there. And you might even come very act. I'm going to bring about the end of suffering. You do good things, but you haven't brought about the end of suffering in yourself. So how is the end of suffering going to happen? Even if you do good deeds, which is a wonderful thing, but if you are unhappy doing good deeds, then that unhappiness also flows into how you do those things and your interactions with other people. Theshift in this world, the end of suffering. To use the buddha terminology, the buddha described his teaching as pointing the way to the end of suffering. That's the buddhas teaching. He never used, he used a negative term, end of suffering. Jesus talked about the kingdom of heaven, which is within you, he used a positive term. They're both talking about the same thing. So the end of suffering has to begin with you, and then it spreads. Then, because that changes the way in which you experience the world, it affects others, and then what you your relationship with other human beings, changes fundamentally. Because only when you are in connectedness with the essence of whom you are can you have harmonious relationships with others, and can you haf feel this deep sense of good will towards other human beings, not conditional upon whether they happen to agree with you, or belong to the same political party, or belong to same religion, or belong to the same nation. It doesn't depend on that the same tribe. No, to have a good will or benevolence towards all humans that you come into contact with, no matter what their conditioning is, that can only come from that deep connectedness with being, and whereyou you do not matically and unconsciously judge others the moment you meet them. So it needs to start with you, then this benevolence, this good will, change is the way in which you interact with other humans. And that change is on a small scale. And then gradually other human beings here and there, can also go to that place within and then start to it the end of sufferingand let's forget about happiness. Let's talk about peace. So it starts with you. Be the change that you want to see in the world. So if you want to see peace, you have to embody the peace. The end of suffering needs to start with you. You your suffering. That's the end of suffering on the planet. And then you can show the way to others too. You don't arily have to become a spiritual teacher, but you may. But in some way, even you don't even need to fully embody that shift in consciousness, fully enlightened master, nor even just to be undergoing the transformational process, you already begin to teach, so to speak, even though you might not teach in the conventional sense of the word.