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Ep. 31 – The Four Noble Truths: The Origin of Dukkha

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Craving for Non-Existence

Dilgokensi Rinpoche said if we have interesting experiences either during or after meditation we should avoid making anything special of them. All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique and entirely free from all concepts of past, present, and future. They are experienced in timelessness. The third kind of craving the Buddha talked about is the craving for non-existence. This is the sense life is so bad. If only I could not be. It's a self that doesn't want to be. There was a time in my practice when I was having a lot of dukkha and suffering and at that time Michelle McDonald,. his colleague, was going through similar things

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