Transforming Suffering

Pain and suffering are universal human phenomena, that don’t mean one have an easy time accepting them. Human beings have devised a vast repertoire of strategies for avoiding having to experience suffering. Sometimes one use external means, such as chemicals- deadening and medicating our emotional pain with drugs or alcohol. We have an array of internal mechanisms as well –psychological defenses, often unconscious, that buffer us from feeling too much emotional pain and anguish when we confronted with problems. Sometimes these defense mechanisms can be quite primitive, such as simply refusing to recognize that a problem exists. Suffering can only be avoided temporarily, but like a disease that’s left untreated the disease invariably feaster and worsens.

 The Dalai Lama detailed his approach to human suffering that ultimately includes a belief in the possibility of freedom from suffering but starts with accepting suffering as a natural fact of human existence, and courageously facing our problem head on.

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Mrs. Reeta Kamble

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