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Sometimes Suffering Is Beneficial

Thich Nhat Hanh · November 5, 2008 · Plum Village, France · Audio Only
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A collective change begins with an individual change:
Practicing right thinking, right speech, and right action allows us to transform the world:

  1. Right thinking is “a thought that brings well-being,” characterized by understanding and compassion, born from deep looking into suffering (the First Noble Truth).
  2. Right speech arises from this understanding and compassion and immediately relieves both the one who speaks and the one who listens.
  3. Right action aims to “support, help, save, protect,” and heals both body and mind.

The Buddha formulated the Four Noble Truths:

  1. The truth of suffering (suffering exists).
  2. The truth of the causes and roots of suffering (understanding suffering).
  3. The truth of the cessation of suffering (the presence of well-being is possible).
  4. The truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering (the Noble Eightfold Path, including right view, right thinking, right speech, right action…).
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