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👁👁 The reason our samsaric experiences transform into the suffering of suffering is because the nature of pleasure itself is suffering. If the nature of pleasure were not suffering, if it were true happiness, then the longer we sit, the longer the pleasure would last. Our happiness would develop more and more. For example, after feeling so hot, we jump into the water at the beach, thinking we could stay there for months and years, like doing retreat. We think there should be more and more unbelievable, inconceivable happiness and bliss. Similarly, if we kept on eating for months and years, then at nighttime there should be unbelievable, inconceivable happiness, but that is not the reality. If it was the reality, even death would not happen. The reason samsaric pleasure changes is because its nature is suffering. The basis is suffering, but we label it pleasure. So, for example, after we have been standing for a long time, we sit down. Then the tiredness of standing stops and the tiredness of sitting starts. As soon as we sit down, the tiredness of sitting starts, from very small. On that feeling we label pleasure. The feeling is only that the great tiredness of standing has stopped and the small tiredness of sitting has started. So, on that we label pleasure. The longer we sit, the more the action of sitting compounds the tiredness of sitting—as soon as we sit down, it starts compounding. The longer we sit, the more the tiredness of sitting compounds and increases. As it grows and becomes visible, it becomes the suffering of suffering. ☀️ Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Samsara is Only in the Nature of Suffering

Samsara is Only in the Nature of Suffering

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