HUMAN SUFFERING AND ITS CAUSES.

 

It is a perception to which is attached certain emotions that arises from a tragic or sorrowful event, the outcome of it being mental pain or suffering. This happens only when we attach our thought to an object or an event or a person whom you love or hate. Hence these attachments of the external world to which we cling our mind lead to the sense of suffering. But as always the inexorable law of impermanence works and so with time suffering gradually subsides. Thus the suffering is also transient. Length of time for which the sense of suffering torments the mind varies from person to person and depends on the level of mental resilience of the person. The sooner a person can detach himself from that event, the sooner he becomes resilient to that painful event   By detaching I mean the ability of a person to "letting go"  or dissociating from that event or person which caused the suffering. As very rightly said by Buddha the enlightened one "Suffering arise when we resist the flow of life by clinging to fixed forms which are things, events, people or ideas". Everything in this physical world is transient and hence impermanent. Thus every good or bad time eventually passes away with the flow of time. The common man is mentally conditioned to happiness at the time of good days and sad at the time of bad days. But as we know, time the inexorable parameter of nature perpetually flows in the forward direction. And it requires man also to align himself to this flow irrespective of whether one is passing thru good or bad times.