The thing about suffering is that it changes all the time. And as a person, we often gets deluded about the sufferings. We often things that we change things, we change jobs, we change partners, we change home, our sufferings will go away. This is not true. What we change is just changing the type of sufferings. For example, in the current house, there are problem with neighbors being crazy, and we thought changing home, it would go away, well, partly true, they go away, but when we go to the new home, there are other new types of sufferings, and how would we deal with that then? It will never end. So, the key to eliminating the suffering is to deal with it directly. To accept that the world are full of funny things, and we can never escape from sufferings. To begin accepting the suffering is to first be thankful of the things you have now. Back to the house example just now, be thankful of the nice home you have. Be thankful that the home have sheltered you from heavy rain, and keep you warm and safe from thunder storms. When you start to cultivate these feelings, two things happen. First, the focus of the problems goes away, shifted to a positive focus. Second, because of the positive focus, you feel much happier. This is how we can eliminate our sufferings. Start with small things, and be thankful of them, and in time, we will be thankful of the life we have and the opportunity to do good and contribute positively to the society.

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