Suffering Is Optional –
May 2, 2019 – We return to our suffering because, fundamentally, we’re trying to make the negative experience come out a different way. If we can just understand our pain more clearly, spend more time with it, we’ll be able to figure it out and make it go away. If we can know the cause, who’s to blame, and what needs to be done about it, we’ll be okay. At an existential level, returning to our suffering allows us to feel a primal sense of I-ness, to feel that we exist. To give up ruminating over problems feels threatening at a primal level. So, what can be done then to break this addiction to pain?
