The Truth of Suffering

Although we would like to be happy and wish happiness for others, but our nature is to suffer and to cause others to suffer. The Buddhist defines “suffering” not just as physical pain of the body, but also the discontent our minds are afflicted with most of our waking day. This truth sounds extreme or even contradictory. How can the essence of life be suffering, when also sometimes feel great happiness – even so joyful that we believe life couldn’t get any better? The conflict between our occasional feelings of joy and the turth of suffering – Examine closely at any moment when you feel fulfilled, you will find that down under the joy there is a subtle undercurrent of tension, the knowledge that no matter how great the moment is, it is going to end. No matter how much you just gained, you are either going to lose some of it or spend the rest of your days guarding what you have got and scheming how to get more. And in the end, you are going to die. In the end, you lose everything. It is all transitory. Happiness and suffering are a natural part of the human condition. To find a better way of being in the world, we must first find the cause of our suffering. (extracted from the book – Empowering your Life with Meditation)

“Suffering is nothing but existence enslaved to ignorance.” – The Dalai Lama

We are born to suffer. How true.

Whatever it is… live life to the max. No regrets before I die. Ha….