Preface
This book is a guide for seeing suffering clearly,
and for seeing the way suffering truly ends.
Not through belief.
Not through hope.
But through understanding the nature of experience,
as it unfolds in this very moment.
The Buddha did not ask us to worship him,
or to wait for salvation in another world.
He offered a precise and complete framework
for recognizing how the “I” is fabricated
and how it can cease.
This framework is simple:
When we understand how suffering arises,
we understand how suffering ends.
Dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda)
is often misunderstood as a theory about the past and future,
about rebirth across lifetimes.
But the Buddha used it primarily to explain:
- how suffering forms here and now,
- and how it can cease here and now.
The purpose of this book is to make that clear.
We will explore the process step by step:
how the mind constructs a world,
how it creates a self to protect,
how that self inevitably suffers,
and how all of it dissolves
when wisdom sees the process for what it is.
This is not philosophy.
This is not belief.
This is a practical map
for ending the burden of “me.”
May this book support you
in discovering a freedom that does not depend on the world—
a freedom available every time suffering tries to arise
and finds no one there to receive it.