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Is suffering real? Well it’s certainly real enough when you’re going thru it isn’t it. But is it real when you look at the “big picture”, well who knows.
From my experience, the only thing that reduced suffering for me was learning how to control your thoughts, ie no thoughts, no problems. In my view, a problem doesn’t exist if you dont have thoughts about it.
Yeah I know, it sounds pretty simplistic and easy but of course it isn’t. It’s taken me years to get to the place where I am at right now, but I can say in all honesty that it has been worth the time and energy that I have put into it over the years because I now have very little suffering in my life.
However, life isn’t just black and white like that and there are times when you are in the middle of losing a child, watching someone you love, dying slowly etc and I guess it’s a whole new scenario where nothing you can say or think will help the pain.
Just my thoughts tho.
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