The Human Realm - The Wheel of Life from Birth to Death - Suffering
Suffering is inevitable until we awaken to the true reality of our being. We suffer because we rely on the world of persons, places and things to satisfy our desires.
If you rely on the unreliable, you are asleep.
You are not paying attention.
Everything in the world is unreliable.
The unborn, undying, immutable being is our true nature. To realize this Truth we need to study ourselves in such manner that we forget our selfish ego. We study ourselves with teachings that show us the Way that leads to liberation from suffering.
We must be willing to relinquish two conditons of the mind:
passion
attachment
When we study our passions (emotions) and our attachments we begin to see that our focusing on the external world is unreliable. The world of persons, places and things is constantly changing.
There is no doubt about this changing world - we need only to look and see the shifting sand in all arenas of life today!
When we relinquish our passions for and against as well as relinquish and yield our attachments and reliance on the world, we begin to know freedom from suffering.
Our main hindrance that prevents freedom is our identification with the persons, places and things of the world which keeps us bogged down in the human realm.
When we begin and continue to practice dispassion and non-attachment without a struggle, our self-interest and selfishness diminishes. This shrinking and release of passion and attachment is the beginning of the path to realization.