Suffering: an innate characteristic of existence

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Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of effective phenomena. The opposite of suffering is pleasure or happiness. 

Suffering is an innate characteristic of existence. Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; In brief, when you cling to things that impermanent (every conditioned existence) brings suffering.

The origin of suffering is a craving "thirst" which leads to re-becoming, accompanied by delight and lust, seeking delight here and there; that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for becoming, craving for dis becoming.

The cessation of suffering is the remainder less fading away and cessation of that same craving, the giving up and relinquishing of it, freedom from it, non-reliance on it.

There is a way leading to the cessation of suffering: this is the noble eight fold path taught by the Buddha; that is,
right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

Do you believe the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths and the cessation of suffering lies within the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path ? I do...

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