When you think something up, you should think: ‘This is suffering’ … ‘This is the origin of suffering’ … ‘This is the cessation of suffering’ … ‘This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering’. Why is that? Because those thoughts are beneficial and relevant to the fundamentals of the spiritual life. They lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.

That’s why you should practice meditation …”

Linked Discourses 56.42 5. A Cliff A Cliff

At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. Then the Buddha said to the mendicants, “Come, mendicants, let’s go to Inspiration Peak for the day’s meditation.” “Yes, sir,” they replied. Then the Buddha together with several mendicants went to Inspiration Peak. A certain mendicant saw the big cliff there and said to the Buddha, “Sir, that big cliff is really big and scary. Is there any other cliff bigger and scarier than this one?” “There is, mendicant.”