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How to overcome suffering -You are your own master-
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2. FOREWORD
All problems on this planet are man-made. All
problems, including individual problems, family
problems, community problems, national problems,
cross-border problems and global issues, are our own
creation. Terrorism, Dictatorship, Totalitarianism,
Environmental issues, Global financial crisis, Global
economic depression, EU debt crisis…etc. are all
man-made problems. As a result, many people in the
world are suffering mentally and physically. In the
short term, a large number of unrelated people
suffer from the problem which a small number of
people created. But in the long term, problem
creators will suffer from their own creation. How
silly, meaningless and unnecessary things they are
doing!
However we can solve all the problems by our
hands because they are our own creation. Only thing
we have to do is to investigate the source of each
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3. problem, eliminate the source and establish a new
system to prevent the problem from occurring any
more. There are always motivations behind our
actions, so it’s sufficient to check our motivations for
finding out the cause of the problem. It is surprising
to find out that almost all problems occur due to our
self-centered motivations.
How many people on the earth notice this simple
truth? Because various problems are occurring more
and more in the world, those people must be limited
to our regret. If we compare with 20th century, the
situation must have improved a little because there
is no large-scale war and the number of small-scale
confrontation has decreased. However, many corrupt
people still exist because it’s obvious that the
number of intellectual violence such as political,
administrative and economic corruptions and
mental and verbal violence like bullying is
increasing as a form of non-physical violence in a sly,
underhand manner.
As far as these problems keep occurring, all
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4. sufferings won’t disappear on this planet. Even
though everyone wants happiness and doesn’t want
suffering, some corrupt people are creating the
source of problems. It’s definitely a contradiction
because there is inconsistency of desire and action. If
we really hope to be liberated from sufferings, only
solution will be elimination of self-centered
motivations which are the source of our sufferings.
In order to achieve the hope, we have to understand
our mind system which influences the motivations of
human actions. This book will guide readers to find
out the sources of sufferings and advise how to
eliminate the sources of sufferings through
fundamental knowledge about mind system. I hope
that many readers will overcome sufferings and
determine to transform mind for meaningful,
healthy and happy life.
April, 2012
Hitoshi Tsuchiyama
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5. CONTENTS
FOREWORD 1
Chapter 1 Varieties of Suffering 7
(1)Physical or material suffering 7
(2)Mental suffering 8
(3)Relation between body and mind 10
Chapter 2 Sources of Mental Suffering 12
(1)Self-centered mind 12
(2)Greed 13
(3)Attachment 15
(4)Arrogance and Pride 18
Chapter 3 Source of Self-centered Mind 20
(1)Ignorance 20
(2)Human beings as social animal 21
(3)Interdependence 21
Chapter 4 How to Eliminate Sources of Suffering 23
(1)Human structure 23
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6. (2)Mind system 25
(3)Control of destructive emotions 33
(4)Reduction of self-centered mind 40
(5)Cultivation of compassionate mind 43
Chapter 5 Concrete Solutions 47
(1)Holistic view 47
(2)Appreciation 48
(3)Broad-mind 48
(4)Cause and effect 49
(5)Hope for the next good chance 50
APPENDICES 52
(1) The whole picture of Good Circulation of Mind 52
(2) The whole picture of Vicious Circle of Mind 53
AFTERWORD 54
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