Ep. 130 – Essential Buddhism Part 5: The Truth of Suffering
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Fourth Noble Truth Is the Way to Do It
Each of us is free to choose which path we walk upon. It's not that some being up in the sky determines this person gets enlightened and this person goes to hell. If we cultivate the factors of enlightenment, when they reach maturity, that experience of freedom happens. Not overindulgence in sensual pleasures which keeps us very bound. A very middle balanced approach to living - not clinging, not condemning or identifying with things. In that fullness and balance of mind, it is out of that state that enlightenment can happen. This state in which all suffering ceases.
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