If one has never experienced suffering from the day he was born, he may never understand what suffering is; therefore, he may never understand the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha, and never achieve Enlightenment in his lifetime.
Everything has its beneficial side and harmful side. Everything is impermanent. Beneficial is not always or continuously beneficial; harmful is not always or continuously harmful. I don’t think anybody in his right mind enjoys living with suffering. We must graduate from suffering and become a happy (i.e. free of suffering) person, able to be happy under any circumstances. We need effort to walk from where we are to the intended destination; but we don’t need anymore effort once we reach the destination. We need suffering to make us want to swim through the sea of suffering to the island of perpetual happiness, and we will never need suffering anymore. Don’t be afraid of suffering, don’t seek for suffering (like the Ascetics do), but have the Right View and Right Effort to cease all suffering. It is all in the mind. If we choose to perceive something as suffering, then we will suffer. If we choose not to perceive it as suffering, although our six senses do feel something, then we will not hate what the signals from the six senses tell us. Everybody dislikes having bodily pain, but dislike is not equal to hate. Learn to avoid getting injured, learn to heal injury, but don’t hate getting injured.
The hardest part of all is to accept that some pain is unavoidable and that will do you harm no matter how hard you try. But it will also do you good if you are able to see it this way. Life is really simple, but not easy.
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