Part Two of The Third Noble Truth focuses on the devastation of realizing how we have been and the steady work it takes to wake up.
“I want to tell you in my experience, I don’t know anyone, and I don’t know of anyone, and I haven’t heard of anyone that has even peered at the cessation of anguish, even glimpsed it, glanced at it, caught a whiff of it without having experienced the emotion or state that is called samvega…
“Samvega is the burning quality of coming into utter awareness in a shocking way about the experience of life and just how messy it is—and on top of that, how asleep you have been.”
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