The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Okay, good to say with you. So, Duk usually rendered as suffering is everywhere, everywhere and obvious, but also kind of shocking.

From the Majima Nakaya, the Buddha says,

this Dama I have reached is deep, hard to see,

difficult to awaken to, quiet, and excellent,

not confined by thought, subtle, sensed by the wise.

Duka, in other words, is both easy and hard to see.

When there's some hard moment, some part of us that can barely believe it.

You know, like how could it have unfolded this way? How could the universe do this?

Hala Alian, an artist and psychologist wrote this kind of grief poem.

Or she included the lines that the patients who come to me

swarmed with misery and astonishment,

their hearts like newborns after the first needle. Duk can feel like that.

And the question, how should I love, how do I respond to this?

That never gets fully answered.

People who think they know how to love think they've answered the question, how should I love, they stop growing. How do I love is not a question, it's a co-on. The Buddha asks us to

comprehend suffering, to comprehend suffering.

And the act of comprehending

highlights the necessity of love.

If we actually get close enough

to

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