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The Importance of Consciousness in Suicide
The Buddha teaches us parable of the two darts, and it's one of the more famous parables of the Buddha. We ultimately, in the Buddha's way of thinking, are in control of the second dart. For someone like me, you experience this mental pain and you think to yourself, how can I run away from this mental pain? It's with me wherever I go. It's my, it is me. And so I had to start to break that pattern. The dominant pattern from a very early age became suicide as the way of escape.