num_pages: 240
description: Suffering Is Three Keys to Freedom and Joy centers around three basic aspects of Zen pay attention, believe nothing, and don’t take anything personally. As ending suffering requires that one sees how suffering happens, the book urges readers to be willing to be quiet and pay attention to the process of suffering in effort to see each moment as an opportunity to step beyond illusion into freedom. It also argues that examining beliefs, abandoning them, and returning attention to the present is essential to ending suffering, as is living in the awareness that nothing in the universe is personal.
language: English
title: Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy
titlecomplete: Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy
genres: Religion, Self Help, Philosophy, Buddhism, Health, Zen, Personal Development, Psychology, Nonfiction, Spirituality
ratings_count: 175
publisher: Keep It Simple Books