If someone gave you the choose, would you like to suffer today or not suffer today?
It's a pretty obvious choice, right?
Why would we choose to suffer if it was that easy?
The fact is, it's not that easy. Everyone around you is suffering all the time. Sometimes in big and clear ways, other times in much more subtle and barely detectable ways. But when the Buddha said "Life is suffering" he was on the money. It's always around.
So, why do we suffer?
We suffer because we're not actually as conscious as we think we are.
Of the choices we're making, of the patterns that we're following, of what is happening in our minds and bodies at any given moment. We're largely operating in the dark. And that's the key to change. Being able to recognise that and then do something to become more conscious of your own suffering, or to put it another way, do something to become more aware of your own dysfunction.
Awareness, in and of itself, can stop dysfunction from happening.
Try it and see.
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Awareness is to dysfunction as sunlight is to mildew
Maitreya Speering - Counsellor and Psychotherapist