Indifference. . .
Indifference is the key to suffer less. And I’m not asking you to be indifferent to everything in life.
We can learn to practice indifference towards things that don’t matter. I believe we’ll create much less suffering if we do that. Because something that you’re not attached to, can’t bring you any suffering. Here are some things you can start practicing indifference to.
- Things that won’t matter in five years.
- Things that lie outside of your control.
- Materialistic things.
- Worldy matters that don’t concern you, etc.
One of the core teachings of Buddhism is that all suffering stems from attachment. We suffer when we attach feelings of craving and aversion to various things in life. However, life is often going to hand us things that we resist and take away from us things that we crave — which is why we suffer.
Buddha, on the other hand, has no attachments. He is indifferent to all ups and downs of life, which is how he has liberated himself from the sufferings of existence. And if we learn to practice indifference, we too will create lesser suffering.
Peace and Love, Jim
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