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Why do we need to apply effort?

If I lack the wish to apply myself to spiritual practice, how do I think my suffering will stop ever?

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10:58 · November 7, 2023 feature

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Of course we want to be free from suffering. But if we do not create the causes to be free from suffering, or we can also say if we do not destroy the causes of suffering and create the causes of happiness, it’s simply not going to happen.

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