Suffering is a human creation. The creation of our own mind. Basically, we suffer when the reality is different from our expectations. We suffer when we expect others to be kind and they are rude; we suffer when we expect our girlfriends/wives to be kind and they are indifferent; we suffer when we want to buy something and we have no money. The truth is: we suffer for nothing. The only good thing about suffering is the understanding of it. At the moment you understand your own suffering, you suffer no more. However, suffering is not a static concept, and understanding suffering is a daily basis activity we have to carry on during our current lifetime.


Every moment we face a difficult situation, suffering could be manifested by ourselves in many different ways. Suffering has no single pattern, no single colour, no single configuration, or no single place we are prone to experience it. Suffering is a response we provide to a question we have no suitable answer for. The moment we start thinking about our own life in a conscious and investigative perspective, recalling the situations we have experienced a period of suffering, it is the moment we start understanding the questions, the responses, and the answers we were not possessing in those moments in the past. However, conscious investigation provides us with the teaching, the knowledge, and the wisdom we could extract from our own experiences to understand ourselves, the situations, the surroundings, and the relationship between all of them.


Buddha, the enlightened one, has given us wonderful knowledge concerning the importance of understanding our own suffering. In his teachings we can extract priceless wisdom indicating that any action we would like to engage in should not be engaged with no understanding about why they have to be engaged, and why they are contributing to the enhancement of the self towards the path of a meaningful life. In summary, all of his teachings say almost the same thing: the use of consciousness instead of embracing suffering, and the understanding of suffering instead of the acceptance of it out of that understanding.


We could ask ourselves: how could I put it in practise? How could I face the situation I am facing, and understand the suffering I am prone to experience? Those one million questions have no direct or single answer, as understanding our own suffering is a personal and unique duty. However, by my own life experiences, while reasoning about the past to extract useful lessons for the present, I could say one direct thing: our own instincts and the guard of their secrecy cannot be put aside before we acquire the understanding of them. The moment we realise how to extract useful information from our own senses, it is the moment we understand how to interpret them into useful knowledge to face any challenge with an open mind.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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