Daily Practice Part 3

Summary of Daily Practice.

Part 3:

Become aware that one truth in life is suffering.

Everyone goes through pain whether physical or mental. What we experience as pleasure, is mostly a diminishment of pain. We are in the habit of reacting automatically; we become addicted to feeling good instead of realizing that it is always temporary and thus may be a habit from which we need to see that it occurs and free ourselves. This is not to say that we should abandon actions that make us feel good, just abandon the notion that the feeling is innate in the thing. Eating one chocolate bar is pleasurable to me. Eating seven chocolate bars becomes painful. It is not the chocolate bar that gives pleasure or pain. The chocolate bar is meaningless. The actions and intentions are meaningful. Eat one intsead of seven and realize that it is temporary.