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“When you engage in deep contemplation on the nature of suffering, on the causes of suffering, and on the fact that there exist powerful antidotes to those causes, and when you reflect on the possibility of freedom from suffering and its causes, then you will be able to develop genuine renunciation from the depths of your heart, for you will truly aspire to gain freedom from suffering. At this stage, you will have a sense of being completely exhausted by your experience of unenlightened existence, and by the fact that you are under the domination of negative thoughts and emotions.”