
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Basic Teachings – Part 1 – Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Heart of the Buddhas Teachings”
Everyday Zen Podcast
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Is There Suffering?
All conditioned existence is suffering. There's only suffering. Until there's nirvana, it's just suffering. So if we're not buddhas and we think we're not suffering, we're kidding ourselves. We're suffering all the time, even even when we don't know it. And i have observed in people, including myself, that even when there's a lot of happiness, there's a certain amount of anxi right in the happiness. Because, first of all, you think, of course, this can't last. Even if you don't have the thought, you know, it's there in the quality of happiness,. There's anxiety in the happiness too.
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