How We Create Suffering for Ourselves
September 7th, 2006 by Elliott Maynard
“Our usual black and white dualistic frame of mind almost inevitably creates suffering for ourselves and others because we seriously misperceive reality, polarizing it into incommensurable opposites, and therefore we experience delusion. But once we learn to shed our conditioned awareness and move to what the Buddhists call naked existence, we are finally able to experience our lives free of our habitual conditioning.
This nondual understanding of reality was perfected by Nagarjuna, the second century Indian genius and teacher of the ‘Middle Way,’ whom the Dali Lama described as one of the truly enlightened people of all time. The Middle Way is a generous path that runs brilliantly between dogmatic, materialistic absolutism and insubstantial nihilism (where nothing means anything). It teaches ignorance of who we really are and attachment to materiality are at the root of our suffering.”
…Russell Targ and J. S. Hurtak, 2006 - The End of Suffering: Fearless Living in Troubled Times…Or How to Get the Hell Free.