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**inofindy** · 01-07-2012, 11:01 PM

I wonder how can an enlightened person ends all kind of mental sufferings and lives in complete peace and equanimity when people around are miserable, fighting each other and fully within the mud?

This is how: Suffering arises from within you. The cause of suffering is not in the external environment. It is within you. Therefore, eradication of the cause does not depend on factors of the external environment, such as fighting people, suffering mosquitoes or dying children. This is how an enlightened person's peace can never be disturbed by the outside world.

The definition to enlightenment is not mine. It is how enlightenment is described by the Buddha in the suttas - complete cessation of suffering.

Would you like to tell me how you came into contact with Buddhism Bothi? Which school do you follow and what have you read on Buddhism so far?

01-07-2012, 11:01 PM	#16
inofindy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 473 Senior Member	I wonder how can an enlightened person ends all kind of mental sufferings and lives in complete peace and equanimity when people around are miserable, fighting each other and fully within the mud? This is how: Suffering arises from within you. The cause of suffering is not in the external environment. It is within you. Therefore, eradication of the cause does not depend on factors of the external environment, such as fighting people, suffering mosquitoes or dying children. This is how an enlightened person's peace can never be disturbed by the outside world. The definition to enlightenment is not mine. It is how enlightenment is described by the Buddha in the suttas - complete cessation of suffering. Would you like to tell me how you came into contact with Buddhism Bothi? Which school do you follow and what have you read on Buddhism so far?
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