metonymy4u

For me the end of suffering came (in part) in the following way: I learned to see my thoughts as features of my emotions, my emotions as features of the situation, and the situation as a feature of the universe. Seeing things in this way, I was able to let the thoughts be what they were, nothing more and nothing less. This was the end of clinging. To be sure, not always the end of pain. But the pain became a passing feature of all the causes and conditions of the universe. Itself it was no longer the cause of suffering.