Dealing With Suffering

Suffering is an intense, a profoundly intense experience. And it is an experience in which suffering brings people closest to the possibility of awakening. When you want to be an instrument for helping people awaken, and want to awaken yourself through being with other awakening people, you gravitate towards people that are suffering. It's where the most living force is in human relations. We're working on it step by step, bit by bit. Now, this is a very powerful letter from a lama yeshi, who died recently,. A fine tibetan lama, and he came very ill. This shows here was somebody who had deep spiritual practices, and he had a hard time.