CAUSES OF SUFFERING

People are always on search of happiness and they are  confused, because they don't recognise that they have already what they need or because they don't need what they have. 

What do you really need to be happy?

The main question is "who are you ?""who am i?", because the need is related to our nature. This is why a kid will need something different than a adult, a man than a women, a student than a worker...

My master tald me:

If you look outside yourself for what will fulfill you or make happy,you are very lukely to be desappointed.If you desire something outside yourself, you are suffering from a misconception about reality.

But originally we are ourselves and we don't need nothing to be happy, because happiness and peace are not things we need to find somewhere else,but they are part of our nature without any others identifications(Profession,social ranking...).

Suffering is negative because it bring uncomfortability, but the uncomfortability brings motivation to find a new way. Suffering is a nice motivation for our evolution or progress.

An ancient teaching that comes from Vedanta in India describes five causes of suffering called the Five Kleshas. 

The first cause of suffering is not knowing the true nature of Reality. 

The second cause of suffering is grasping or holding onto what is illusory or insubstantial. 

The third cause of suffering is from an aversion to something, a fear of something, a revulsion to something that is insubstantial. 

The fourth is identification with the false self or ego and thus we are constricted and limited in our consciousness. 

The fifth cause of suffering is the fear of death. 
As you can figure out, all of these causes of suffering are contained in the first one which does not know the true nature of reality

  

when you live in a difficult situation that you can't explain you suffer.

this is why diseases, various pains bring sufferings because we don't know when and how it will end, if we should die what will happen after that. Why am i in this situation...not knowing the true nature of reality is thinking and seeing things in ways that distort reality.
 
All good and love is inside you at the core

of your being. if you 

travel within and focus completely inside in 

the center of your being, you will find the 

love, peace and fulfillment you have been 

looking for. Anything outside is transitory 

and shallow compared with what is within.
  

It takes courage to make the journey to the 

center of your being as you have to let go 

of the illusion of separateness or 

emptiness. 

You will stop suffering as you enter into 

that relationship with the universal cosmic 

Energy(call it as you want) and let go of the 

idea that you are vacuously empty. When you 

discover God within, all craving ceases along 

with any fear, revulsion, prejudice or anger.

greats master tried to give answers to this question:

Jesus said: suffering was caused by separating from the love of God. Disconecting through negative thoughts, actions, and emotions that take us away from God. essentially, Jesus taught that falling away from our real nature, our true being, causes us to suffer. In order to connect again with our real nature, we need to love God first and love all of our brothers and sisters wihtout exception. Jesus further elaborated the way to get back into oneness with God through the simples teachings of the beatitudes. For exemple:"blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God."

Buddha taught that desire causes suffering. When we do not have what we want, we long for it and this causes a burning in our being until it is satisfied. If we withdraw our attention from the object of our desire or craving, then we cease to suffer.

 

when you plant a sead, before it becomes a plant, that sead need to die, to be transformed and this process is painful and it force the sead to loose many things in order to give life to a new plant that will later bring fruit and a lot of other benefits to the Human being and all the nature.

So pain can be a motivation for our evolution or progress.

 We don't need to be afraid to loose because many others beautiful things come only when we loose, we let go, we detache ourselves from what we actually have.

 Fear of death: nobody knows exactly what happens after the death. All what we know about are only considerations. Instead of waisting time to be searching all the life we just believe that there is life after this experience. Your believe will give the meaning of all your life on earth. when we have this end so clear, but what make us sad before dieing is the attachement to things, to peoples, fear to loose.

some peoples said:

-Death brings fear because i detache with nice peoples, but i believe that i'll be going to a beautiful place, so i feel happiness just thinking this way;

-It is a passage and we are obligated to go without anything;

-We are all strangers on this world and each of us has a mission. At the end of the mission we need to go back home. The fear comes because we don't understand if the mission is at the end or not. It's also difficult to understand this mission during the life or we are so attached to our mission and we suffer to leave it and we think that no one else can continue it.

I believe in God, death is my meeting with him, so to die means to loose everything in order to meet my father who is the creator of the universe. This is one of the vision that can make somebody relaxed before dying.