🧠 WRQ1 – QUIZ FOR WHEN YOU SUFFER BECAUSE OF OTHER PEOPLE

✨ This indicates that the pain is still deep inside you and hasn’t been truly faced or understood.
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❌ This shows your mind has been controlled by delusions for a long time. It’s a wrong view that needs to be brought into awareness.
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❌ This is a passive resignation—identifying with the pain without realising inner healing is possible.
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❌ This is a temporary coping strategy. Indifference is not the same as healing.
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✨A high frequency indicates the mind hasn’t let go.
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❌ This is a sign of inner suppression, with the root issue unresolved.
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❌ These are moments when wrong thoughts often arise. You need to practise self-observation.
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❌ This signals that false views are still operating subconsciously.
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❌ This is an external manifestation of an unresolved inner issue.
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❌ A sign of unresolved anxiety and insecurity.
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✨ A reminder that suffering often spreads and interacts, like dependent origination.
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❌ Suggests you may be mistaking the essence of suffering for your identity.
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❌ A temporary way to avoid pain, but not a path to deep healing.
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❌ External support helps, but it doesn’t touch the root of the suffering.
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✨ A very good way to understand your mind and heal.
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❌ This can lead to exhaustion and the illusion of recovery.
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❌ Incorrect.
Actions are merely conditions – the suffering arises from the meaning your mind attaches to them.
Another person might not suffer at all in the same situation.
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❌ Not quite.
Situations are not the cause – they only reflect your deluded mind.
You suffer because you want things to be different, not because of what they are.
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When you realise nothing and no one truly belongs to you, and all things are impermanent, you stop grasping – and the pain ends.
📜 “Who sees impermanence, sees the Dhamma. Who sees the Dhamma, sees the path to liberation.”

❌ That’s a wrong view.
Buddhism is not based on fate, but on clear understanding and practice.
You are not “a victim of pain” – you simply haven’t learned the lesson of letting go.
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❌ Incorrect.
That person is only a condition, not the cause.
You suffer because you tried to hold on but couldn’t.
Craving – clinging – illusion are the true roots.
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✅ Correct.
You are the one who assigned meaning, clung, and believed in a “me who got hurt.”
If there is no self, then who is abandoned?
📜 “No one causes your suffering – except your own mind.”

❌ Not quite.
Same situation – some suffer, some don’t.
The suffering lies not in the event but in how your mind responds.
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❌ Incorrect.
Denying everything is just another form of extreme wrong view.
The Dhamma doesn’t teach denial, but seeing causes clearly and letting go where it’s due.
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❌ You’re giving too much power to an impermanent being.
They are merely a condition – not the root cause.
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❌ Memories are just mental images – they can’t hurt unless you hold on.
📜 “The past cannot be grasped. The future has not yet come. Dwell in the present.”

✅ Correct.
Suffering doesn’t come from outside – you keep feeding it with deluded thoughts.
📜 “The mind is the builder. The mind is the destroyer.”

❌ Close, but not quite.
Yes, suffering arises from conditions – but without clinging, those conditions fade.
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❌ Incorrect.
Whether or not they meant it, suffering doesn’t come from them – it comes from your expectations.
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❌ Not quite.
Pain is real, but you need to look deeper into its root, not just acknowledge the feeling.
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✅ Almost right – and if they were unintentional, then who is holding onto the pain?
📜 “No one can hurt you if your mind doesn’t cling.”

✅ Correct.
The same words may hurt one person but not another.
Because suffering isn’t in the words – it’s in the clinging mind.
📜 “The mind leads all things.”

✅ Correct.
It’s the lack of self-awareness and mindfulness that creates that emptiness.
📜 “Those who don’t understand themselves keep searching in others.”

❌ Wanting them to change means you’re giving them power over your life.
📜 “Those without attachment don’t expect others to change.”

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❌ Still a delusion.
Every connection is impermanent. Depth or longevity matters less than knowing when to let go.
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❌ You’re placing your happiness in someone else’s hands.
The Dhamma doesn’t teach us to beg for love – it teaches us to let go of the need to be loved.
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❌ Incorrect.
You’re living in your imagination – no one can truly feel your pain except yourself.
You’re still suffering because you want them to understand you.
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❌ Also incorrect.
You’re adding more suffering through judgment and secondary hurt.
No one is obligated to “care properly” –
What matters is whether you still hand over emotional control to them.
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✅ Correct.
They may be completely unaware – and the pain continues because you keep feeding it in silence.
📜 “Suffering doesn’t arise from others doing wrong, but from not understanding the root of suffering is delusion.”

❌ Almost right – but you’re still identifying with the suffering, instead of seeing it as a result of clinging.
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❌ Not quite.
Your worth doesn’t come from others’ opinions or words.
You’re hurting because you define your value by how others respond.

✅ Correct.
This pain is a great chance to see your ego demanding a place.
When you no longer need to be “important to someone,” you are truly free.
📜 “Ego creates suffering. Non-self is liberation.”

❌ Also not quite.
Giving to gain recognition is an exchange – not compassion.
You’re hurt because you still expect something in return for your kindness.
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❌ Almost right – but not deep enough.
Expectations bring suffering – but the real pain lies in the ‘I’ that believes it deserved more.
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❌ Incorrect.
“Forever” exists only in deluded thoughts, not in the law of impermanence.
Clinging to someone as destiny is placing weight in the wrong place.
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❌ Close.
Is their “importance” truly real – or amplified by your attachment?
No matter how important, they are still subject to impermanence.
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✅ That’s right.
You’re not being pessimistic – you’re awake to the nature of life.
📜 “All conditioned phenomena are impermanent.”

❌ Avoidance won’t erase suffering.
Avoidance is a fearful form of clinging, which prolongs the pain.
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✅ Correct.
It’s okay if no one stays –
As long as you can return and see where you once clung.
📜 “Rely on yourself. Don’t seek refuge in others.”

❌ Not deep enough.
Relief is only temporary when a connection is released.
If attachment within hasn’t been let go, the suffering will repeat.
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❌ Also not quite right.
This is enduring suffering, not understanding it.
Accepting pain isn’t the same as seeing through its structure to be free.
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❌ Incorrect.
This means you’ve fused their image with your sense of life.
The Dhamma doesn’t teach us to control others – it teaches us to master our own minds.
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❌ Incorrect.
You’re placing your inner healing in someone else’s actions.
They may return, but you’ll still hurt – because your mind hasn’t been seen or released.
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❌ Still not the right solution.
An apology may soothe your ego – but it doesn’t heal attachment.
You don’t need them to be wrong – you need to see what you were expecting.
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❌ Still not a sustainable solution.
Cutting them off addresses the outside.
But if you don’t leave the wounded ego behind, suffering remains.
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✅ Correct.
Only when you see where you’re clinging can you truly release it.
That person holds no power anymore – unless you keep giving it to them.
📜 “Letting go is peace.”

❌ Incorrect.
You don’t miss them because they’re special –
But because your mind hasn’t accepted that loss is normal.
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✅ Correct.
No one stays forever.
No relationship is a permanent place to hold onto.
Seeing impermanence is the first step toward non-self and release.
📜 “All conditioned things are impermanent. When seen with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”

❌ Also not quite right.
Recurring emotions mean the mind hasn’t seen it clearly enough to let go.
You need to reflect deeply, not just endure the sadness.
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❌ Not quite.
Regret is just reversed attachment to the past.
The Dhamma doesn’t teach us to fix the past – but to see the mind that regrets.
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❌ Not quite right.
That emptiness appears because you’ve merged that person with your self-identity.
No one truly belongs to you, so nothing is truly lost.
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✅ Correct.
Every loss is a chance for the mind to turn inward,
To see clearly where we’ve been holding on.
When there’s no one left to cling to, you begin to see yourself.
📜 “Be your own island, your own refuge.”

❌ Still not right.
Acting fine doesn’t make you fine.
Suppressing isn’t the same as awakening.
You need to see the root of that sadness – not pretend to be strong.
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❌ Incorrect.
Their departure is just an action. Feeling abandoned is your mind’s interpretation.
Blaming others doesn’t reduce suffering – it only prolongs it.
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❌ Incorrect.
This is not a solution—it’s just an escape disguised with a new name.
You’re simply replacing the object, without transforming the root of suffering within.
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❌ Not enough.
Living well is fine—but if it’s just to prove something to someone, you’re still entangled.
True value doesn’t come from appearances, but from inner freedom without attachment.
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✅ Correct.
Only when you clearly see that “no one belongs to you, and nothing lasts forever,”
will your mind stop demanding, regretting, or blaming.
📜 “One who sees dependent origination sees the Dhamma. One who sees the Dhamma sees the path to the end of suffering.”

❌ Incorrect.
The urge to “make them hurt like you did” is a disguised form of aversion.
It won’t lighten your burden—it only prolongs the cycle of suffering.
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✅ Correct.
Every pain is a doorway—
not to run away, not to punish someone,
but to return inward and clearly see how your mind operates.
📜 “One who sees the Dhamma sees the mind. One who sees the mind sees the Dhamma.”

❌ Not quite right.
Love itself doesn’t cause suffering—
it’s craving, attachment, and expectations in love that do.
Awakened love doesn’t generate suffering—only clinging love does.
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❌ Incorrect.
Losing trust is a reaction from a wounded mind.
Not all people are the same.
Projecting your pain from one person onto the whole world is emotional attachment.
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❌ Incorrect.
This is a form of pessimistic wrong view.
Seeing impermanence without wisdom leads to sorrow.
Seeing impermanence with wisdom leads to liberation.
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