Ending Unnecessary Suffering
How to Create a Powerful, Complete, and Peaceful Life
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Product details:
- Publisher Park Street Press
- Date of Publication 24 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9798888501184
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 228x152x20 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A guide to freeing yourself from self-induced suffering
MoreLong description:
A guide to freeing yourself from self-induced suffering
• Provides contemplative practices and exercises to help you recognize how you cause your own suffering
• Explores the dynamics of the mind and how it sets the stage for distress
• Explains how mental states of suffering are created and how to control your mind to stop those thought patterns and assumptions
Most of us believe that suffering is inevitable. Stress, shame, depression, grief, loneliness, disappointment, the feeling that life is incomplete&&&8212;every negative experience contributes to the emotional and psychological pain that impedes our ability to live happy, fulfilling lives. But what if most suffering could be avoided? Is there an antidote to inner turmoil that can be learned and applied to everyday life?
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Ralston reveals how to free yourself from mentally created suffering. He explains how most creatures don’t experience suffering the way we do. They don’t worry or fret, fear the future, or imagine they are somehow flawed or less than they should be. Exploring the dynamics of the mind that set the stage for distress and that get us into trouble, he explains how mental states of suffering are created, how to recognize when you cause them, and how to stop suffering-inducing thought patterns and beliefs.
Sharing contemplative practices and exercises to help you end your inner turmoil and foster growth, awareness, and freedom, Ralston provides an empowering way to create a more complete, powerful, and peaceful life experience.
“Peter Ralston has created a mighty tome that clearly lays out why we suffer, the mechanics behind our suffering, and solutions that we can actually use to end our personal suffering. The practices offered bring us to awareness, and that is a beautiful doorway to freedom from pain and freedom from suffering. In a day and age when we can experience many difficulties just by living life, Ending Unnecessary Suffering is a gift to us all.”
Table of Contents:
PREAMBLE Stop Putting Your Hand in Boiling Water
PART I
Foundations of Our Experience
CHAPTER ONE Concept versus Experience
What Is a Concept?
Exercise for Identifying Concepts
What Is an Experience?
Incorporating an Assertion
How Does Concept Dominate Your Experience?
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Recognizing Your Beliefs
Interpretation and Meaning
Concepts Held As If They Are Objective Reality
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Objectification of Concepts
Overlooked Conceptual Influences on Experience
Image Exercise
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Overlooked Conceptual Influence
Being Incomplete
CHAPTER TWO Awakening Overlooked Consciousness
You versus Your Self-Experience
Ignorance
Inventions versus Direct Encounter
The Inner-Self Is an Invention
The Nature of Mind
Distinctions within the Self
PART I I
Getting Free from Unnecessary Suffering
CHAPTER THREE Conceptualizing versus Being
CHAPTER FOUR Mental Activities behind Most
Forms of Suffering
Dissatisfaction
Depression
Stress
Worthlessness
Loneliness
Disappointment
Flawed
Vulnerable
Alienation
Inner Turmoil
Shame
Grief
Bringing It Home
Mind Exercise
CHAPTER FIVE Transforming the Mind to
End Suffering
Conceptual-Action versus Conceptual-Activity
Aligning What Isn’t with What Is
Choosing a Path Forward
Our Fear of the Mundane
The Search for Meaning
Being Complete
No Perspective Is True
Suffering and Consciousness
PART I I I
Investigating Our Experience
CHAPTER SIX About Mind
Thinking
Existential Thinking
Emotion
Rethinking Emotion
Mastering Emotions Exercise
CHAPTER SEVEN Beneath the Surface
Clarifying Existential Assumptions
and Bottom Lines
Transcending Your Self-Agenda
Suffering Causation “Religion”
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Cause of Suffering
More on Impulses and Drives
PART I V
New Perspectives and Powerful Distinctions
That Change Experience
CHAPTER EIGHT Creating New Experiential Abilities
Investigating Existentially
Completion
Turning-Into
Communication
Purpose
Creating a Purpose Exercise
Staying on Point
Increasing Awareness
Creativity and Change
CHAPTER NINE Powerful Life-Enhancing Principles
Practice, Principle, Being
Excellence and Mastery
Responsibility
Intention and Commitment
Honesty, Honor, Integrity
Correction
Empowerment
PART V
Practice
CHAPTER TEN Doing the Work
Life Practices
Center Breathing
Mastery and the “Effortless” Component
Unusual Interactive Perspectives
Necessary Suffering?
ADDENDUM A Principle That Could Change
Humanity
Index
About the Author
