CONTEMPLATE FEELINGS AS SUFFERING
Master Jun Hong Lu: Let me tell you about: “To Contemplate our Feelings as Suffering”. We have to constantly contemplate and recognise that our feeling is suffering. For example, you had a lot to eat today. It was all bliss when you were eating. You just wouldn’t want to stop. What’s next? Suffering. Because your digestive system is not able to take it.
What about when you go for a holiday? You need to go on a long-haul bus ride that gives you swollen legs at the end of the journey. Isn’t that suffering?
Bodhisattva wants us to contemplate that all our feelings lead to suffering. It may look pleasurable on the surface. Just like medicine. It may be sugar-coated. But there is no medicine in the world that is not bitter.
I wish to tell you that for a person who is enlightened of The Way, a person of wisdom, like what I said earlier, they need to:
Firstly, contemplate our body as impure. It is only when you see yourself as far from ‘clean’ will you cultivate well.
Secondly, contemplate our feelings as suffering. We need to understand that all our bodily feelings lead us only to suffering.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Volume 6 Chapter 45
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