True suffering arises from
contaminated actions and afflictions.
Birth, illness, grief, old age,
poverty, pain, death
- these are sufferings.
The causes of suffering arise
from true sources.
Attachment, desire, envy, hatred,
greed, unkindness, wrong view
and so forth
- these are some causes of suffering.
When one understands that
he causes some of his own suffering,
needlessly,
then he looks for the causes in his own life.
And when he looks for those causes,
when he investigates,
then he is putting confidence in
his own ability to eliminate the sources
and end the suffering.
A wish to find a path to peace arises.
For all beings desire happiness.
All wish to find their purest selves.
-++kundun++-
