It is free of suffering, arising, cessation, and path.
This talk reflects on human suffering from the perspective of the Heart Sutra. Most of our suffering originates from rejecting this moment in the form of clinging or resisting. This moment is never it. The separate self is the activity of endlessly seeking something other than just this! Suffering is a form of homesickness – we are alienated from our natural home – which is always just this moment. From the perspective of the heart sutra – when we rest in awareness and allow this moment to be exactly as it is, without clinging or resistance – we are no longer separate from suffering and hence, paradoxically, free of both suffering and the pursuit of the ending of suffering.
