Turn your back on god

Buddhist emphasis upon adopting the proper inner attitude and spirit and with certain important Buddhist teachings, including the doctrine of Dependent Origination.
According to this, we have contact with the environment, and this causes us to crave or desire things, which in turn causes grasping or clinging to things, which finally brings rebirth, misery, and sorrow.

If we can eliminate the cravings, we can eliminate both the search for satisfaction and the frustrations of dissatisfaction, and this in turn will mean the elimination of pain and misery. And cravings are eliminated through terminating the sa.mskaaras -- the drives, impulses, and dispositions karmically produced in us -- and this through overcoming ignorance about our true nature and condition and following the Eightfold Path.
Note that in all this, the primary source of pain and pleasure is not objective or external (though of course the external or environmental is a condition or occasion for it), but subjective or internal.
That is, pain and pleasure are created by us as we react to our circumstances. We are disposed to interpret our experiences in this way.
Thus, by controlling our reactions and the desires from which they stem, we can control our responses of pain and pleasure and ultimately eliminate both.
This goal is achieved in adopting the attitude of equanimity toward all events

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