In life, there’s sickness, old age, death and loss … other very hard times …

But that’s not why ‘Life is Suffering‘. Not at all, said the Buddha.

Instead, it’s sickness, but only when we refuse the condition …
…old age, if we long for youth …
… death, because we cling to life …
… loss , when we cannot let go …
… violated expectations, because we wished otherwise …

Our ‘dissatisfaction‘, ‘disappointment‘, ‘unease‘ and ‘frustration‘ … Dukkha … arises as a state of mind, as our demands and wishes for how things ‘should be’ or ‘if only would be for life to be happy’ differ from ‘the way things are’. The gap is the source of Dukkha. Our Practice closes the gap

What’s more, even happiness can be a source of Dukkha if we cling to the happy state, demand that it stay, are attached to good news, material successes, pleasures and the like … refusing the way life may otherwise go.

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