Is There a Suffering in Your Life?

The more attention you pay to sensations, the less suffering there is. A friend of mine who's a meditation teacher puts it in another way and just says like, you know, in order to suffer in life, your situation unpleasant and annoying or whatever it might be, you have to have some mental bandwidth left over for that complaining. And actually, if you can train the attention to be more and more, ever more fully in and on the experience that you're having, then there's less bandwidth to sort of find it the cause of suffering.

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