How often it comes to our mind that we are suffering! All our efforts are our best to avoid it. You may hear people say, “Suffering is the truth of life”, or, “Life has become a synonym to suffering”
If the whole world is ‘suffering’, then who is saved? Is there any way to ‘not suffer’ anymore?

Well, the answer to this question will come once we know the source of this suffering.
Very often we misunderstand the real cause and so all our efforts either go in vain, or bring more suffering.

There is only one cause of suffering. There is no other.

Call it desire, call it attachment, call it neediness, call it whatever. The name you give it does not matter.

The underlying reality is the same: clinging to something that seems indispensable.

This clinging is suffering.
Clinging to a past, clinging to things, people or anything.
Life is dynamic. Biologically each and ever cell of our body is replaced by new in a matter of time. The air we breath in is not the same we breath out.

How long can you hold your breath in? How long can you hold your heart beat, that I just loved this beat right now, I don’t want it to go. We can’t hold time, not even for a nano second. Change is what life really is. Letting go is life. The easier and smoother we let it go, the lesser we suffer.

Trying hard to retain everything, mounting needless expectations, has pushed us far far from the reality. Result is anxieties, stress, worries, Suffering.

We suffer because of our unreasonable expectations not because of reality.
No one suffers because of reality. Reality is what it is and has always been so. It is the rose colored and naively idealistic lens through which we perceive reality that sets us up for disappointment.

Look around you. Look your own self, your body. Look the breathing process. Try to hold it. Try to hold the Sun, to not to let it set. Try to hold air, water, light. It’s all the same.
Where is suffering now? It was no where. It is no where. We created in our own mind. We create it in our own mind.

The absence of living is suffering. Start living every moment, gracefully bidding farewell to every passing moment, and respectfully welcoming every new with a smile – within, throughout.

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