suffering

Suffering is inevitable, misery is optional In last week’s post, I wrote on suffering, the first noble truth of Buddhist philosophy. Blog posts don’t do it justice but it’s worth whetting appetites if I can. I also wrote that suffering is inevitable, but misery is optional. Alas, we’ve gotten it entirely backward. We desperately want to believe that misery is natural – in fact, we wear misery with pride. We also think that suffering can somehow be defeated by believing…