Suffering is not a meaningless evil, but a necessary teacher that frees people from attachment to birth and death when they consciously endure it and draw wisdom from it.
The text compares suffering to spending money in vain: whoever invests time, energy, and effort expects a result and finds it unpleasant when nothing comes back. The central demand is that every suffering—physical as well as mental—should not be endured in vain, but must teach something. As an example, a monk is told who suffered in India as a poor student amid misunderstandings and harassment and gained hard will and later knowledge from it. Suffering is described as a means that weakens the desire for renewed birth and thus facilitates the way out of the kamma bond and samsara. Loss, illness, and death are understood as lessons that remind of impermanence and non-ownership. The text calls for developing patience and equanimity and drawing wisdom from every suffering.
Analysed with qwen3.8-27b, version v3.
The same standards apply to every tradition, see Values.
Full text in English
When we spend money to buy something, if we receive something that doesn't match the description, or worse, we don't get anything back at all, we feel that we can't just let it go—we must do something, because we don't want to lose money for nothing. When we put in effort or do something, spend time, use our strength and try, and nothing comes of it as we expected, or nothing happens at all, we feel uncomfortable, dissatisfied, because we feel we've wasted our effort for nothing. We must do something so that the time and strength we've put in gives us something in return. Suffering makes us feel, makes us know everything, truly see—not that it is all free. Those who remain in suffering, who suffer in every situation, in places where suffering is not put to good use—if suffering arises even once, don't let it be free suffering. We must get something from every bit of suffering, whether it's suffering at home or suffering that is heavy. Don't let it be in vain. The Venerable Ones also told us that when they were seriously ill, near the time of passing, eighty-four years old, their minds were already very weak, more than... hmm, the Venerable Ones also said, "Please, please, please"—that is, they were very diligent, much more than the effort to help turn away from death. It brings about wisdom in that way. We will study pain, suffering, and death so that it is clear. Every time we are uncomfortable, let it be clear every single time. It's the same, Venerable One. When ill, near death, the Venerable One did not let a single bit of suffering be free. It gives us a great deal, as if to say it makes wisdom more complete. If we learn to know it, every bit of suffering, every good suffering, it makes us weary—wearied that I don't want to be born anymore. The Venerable One took it from the jaw, in the sense that happiness makes one cling to the Three Realms of Existence, born in one realm and dying in another, and so on. And when people have happiness, they want to come back, to do kamma, to be born again. But if there is free suffering added, ordinarily one doesn't want to be born anymore. And if there is a little knowledge, one will know that this birth is because one is clinging to kama, or to the aggregates. The matter of the aggregates is not easy to understand, but this matter should be understood: it makes us cling to the weariness of birth and the weariness of further death. But because we encounter suffering, it makes us not want to be born anymore. This is certain. If one does not practice the way out of kama, or out of the cycle of existence—fortunately, because there is knowledge of the cycle of existence, at least when suffering arises, it helps train us to have patience, to have endurance. And when there is suffering—poverty, little education, because parents separated—in the case of the Venerable One, when he went to study in India, at that time he went to study but was a first-year student. Now he is living as a monk. This is great suffering—not suffering from studying, not suffering from bad teachers, but suffering from being bullied by people, because they saw that he didn't know the language well. And he developed a strong heart, studied well, and was satisfied with India, saying he didn't want to go back to India anymore. But then he was ordained as a monk. Oh, going back to recall the events, the long suffering in India, both with the teachers and the tears flowing, because if we had learned something, if we hadn't had the experience, or hadn't encountered suffering on that day, there would be no today. The day when he had knowledge, the vast knowledge that he teaches students in the subject of philosophy, the subject of knowledge, being a philosopher, Hindu religion, the Buddha's religion, helps to understand, to love, to understand and help better. The suffering that was deep with the teachers—now with the teachers, part of it—gives us a great deal of suffering. If we ask, we have no words, we must remind ourselves not to suffer for free. There is no suffering that is free, no suffering of illness, because why—what arises in the body, and the mind arises. There is no suffering that is free. At least we must get something. Suffering teaches us. There is nothing that is truly ours, whether it's the body, money, possessions, or the body's limbs—it all teaches us. There is nothing that is truly ours. All possessions stay with us only for a short time. One good day, a flood comes, or fire comes, or someone comes to steal it. Nowadays it's not just ordinary thieves, it's the gangsters, the criminals. Take today, for example. 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To be angry is not right, because one has already known that animals will do good things. Counting the practice and encountering things that are shared among people, such as being scolded or being hit, is a matter that no one can escape the results of. This is the Buddha's teaching. At the time when one is angry, one should go to the foot of the Buddha. On that day, there was a layperson who was waiting to receive alms. There was a boy who was five years old walking far away. And then he went to receive alms from that person. But he walked far away. The boy of that person said, "You tell your mother, you tell your mother." Never, never has anyone spoken like this before. But then he came to his senses. When he had a thought, because he thought, "This is the truth of the day. If we are a monk, we must not be angry." He spoke correctly. Because he thought at this level, his mind was calm or no longer angry. Because soon the person who made him know that he was not enough as a monk, he became a monk who was not angry. It is not hidden from his mother. Sacrifices like they did to themselves. After that, he spoke about this child, saying that this is a lesson of the Buddha. This is not being hit for free. The fact of not being hit for free means that one gets something from being hit. One sees oneself that one is still not ready. And seeing this, the person who is hit should be a teacher. A teacher who loves and does not hate. When there is a thought, one goes to stay at a temple. One temple in Mookie. In the matter of love, a monk who does not reach Unity. The temple has a teacher. That is, one should not be separated from the precepts. Not to be separated, to call for food. Calling for food is difficult for a layperson who is not a relative. But I am also a monk. You also do not eat. But there is a layperson who is not at ease seeing him. Going to call for food for that layperson. 63 who came to put on robes. It is not the custom of a monk. In his heart, one day he therefore spoke. At the time when he was walking for alms, he knew that the alms that the layperson gave with a bad heart was a sermon. Therefore, when he came to the place where he was, he also recited. Right mindfulness. She, she, that is, the heat of the mind. The language of the good. And then he told the image, "Teacher, teacher." The cutting of that dharma. As much as he gave from the morning. It is a good thing. And the hope that the teacher's mindfulness, he also folded his hands. He asked for forgiveness, saying, "What, what. A monk who has no color, no discipline. Flattering, asking for food, liking the layperson's house. Being like this is not long to be respected. The mother who has gone beyond the time of the market. Also does not ask for forgiveness. Ashamed to leave the temple from now on. If not going, will bring a child to entrust. This is not an ordinary sermon. If one leaves the temple, it is a picture of a monk. I mean not many. A monk who is not in harmony. Still wants to harm. If French refrigeration. The father who can make us continue. Folding hands, sir. He also told this. Angry for a long time like a prince. But before, I had heard. But the disease also does eight. Being like this. Like this. That is, having received the robe, having received the top of the robe. This is a beautiful thing. There is happiness, there is suffering. But today I have seen the real thing. The core has come to this morning. I have not done it. He told me. If the teacher is not angry, then he still gets Europe from the sermon. Because ambulatory there. He considers it to be a miracle. The deity instead. Dog Side Bar. He considers that he is not hit for free. To support. The person who is new. Gesna ry. Does not like to be hit. Pride go. What. He went away. To make the cutting from the morning. My thought also speaks of it. The mother who is hit. Also sees that it can be done. This is the poison of the morning book. That does not accept being hit for free. But the poison of the morning world of not being hit for free is to answer back. You hit one. I hit two. And finally, it is to add more suffering to oneself. So life also reaches the point of hitting and fighting. Forgetting oneself. But the poison of the morning speech, when being hit, we must not be hit for free. That is, getting something from his words of hitting. That is, the mind that has come. That matter also trains the mind to not be. The mind is in the front. Because if the mind is in the front, then one will be angry. If one holds the front, holds the back, presses the back, then one will not be satisfied. Because the official does not accept being hit for free. In the eye or in the practice of the cloud. The answering back also makes one lack much. That is, but if one has become dharma, this is what I mean by not being hit for free. That is, getting something back. Becoming karma. Sometimes the master must be that we are a source of support. Speaking according to the next. This master changes it to be a person who is a source of support. Soon, because a person who has wisdom, or must not have wisdom. But the words that he says, it is also a source of support for us. Therefore, the body is not hit for free. Getting support is also doing merit. The matter of the noble support. The same name. When we practice, there is a feeling that arises. There is a thought. Now, a thought arises. Worrying. Feeling. Wanting to feel for free. Because each feeling gives us something. It opens the work to get to feel. To see the feeling. Drell. Lougg'he. That just capital pieces. But if mange thought through tin. That I don't see. But later he sees graph. Good Allah. Soon I am not. Me refugee $. There is a thought that arises. Also, I am not. Not going to be Mimi NEW. D. Milj. M. I. W. I. F. E. N. G. L. O. O. S. O. K. S. A. K. G. L. I. E. D. If one behaves like this, one does not see this point. It is also like saying webam. But also not Grac. Tel. K. Free. If we find practice, it is also possible to train the mind to create faith or to create faith. If one cannot see it, it is also like saying that one has come to practice for free.
It may not be impermanent in many ways. In fact, it is obtained, but what is obtained does not need to be impermanent and lacking in hope. That expectation is what causes us to be disappointed, because it is not as expected. But in reality, there are many things that are beyond expectation, but we cannot see them. And if we lose the good things, it will be because of that which is beyond expectation, which is good, such as having faith, having more faith, having more mindfulness, or having more awareness of thoughts and feelings. This is what is here, reflecting upon itself.