While accompanying a fellow monastic on a trip to the emergency room, Ajahn Karuṇadhammo contemplates the fragility of all that we tend to cling to as stable and controlled by a self. This drives home for him the realization that the concept of a “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” can be just another path to suffering if striven for without right view. This talk was offered on December 12, 2015 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.