Whatever changes are going to happen in our lives, they are out of our control—-it is destiny expressing itself as it does. There is no doer, deeds are being done, but no one is doing them. It includes any change in our attitude and how we feel at the core about being here in our life. How does one feel about happiness and peace of mind for the human being? Being alive in life and being at rest with that thought, is there any uncomfortableness with that living of life presenting itself in any situation? If there is, it represents lack, an incompleteness with self or the means surrounding one’s activity. In essence, it is a resistance to life as it is. The uncomfortableness is an underlying symptom of the contracted energy in the human, causing a display of limited conscious awareness that the self is an individual person occupying a physical body. Our attitude towards life has a direct correlation to the level of internal discomfort with ourselves.
Suffering is an attitude to circumstance. If the occasion appears to be complicated or painful, it has been delivered to us in that way knowingly or unknowingly. We may be aware of an apparent cause, and unknowingly, it may have come about without notice. The event or circumstance is out of our control, even if we feel we have some control. Whatever it may be, if we accept Karma for what it is, just action coming our way, it will pass sooner than overlaying an attitude about it. Any narrative of why and what for, an explanation to satisfy or divert the reality of the difficulty will only lead to perpetuating the pain that inevitably causes unnecessary suffering. It is not the circumstance; our attitude towards it produces suffering.
Suffering is not because of circumstance. The event or circumstance may trigger a response within us, and it may appear the situation was solely at fault. The answer to any event or circumstance comes to us initially as a feeling, then a stream of thought follows to align with the positive or negative sentiment. Thus, an attitude will arise to the circumstance. Any response to a given situation may have an initial reaction to any occasion. These feelings occur in many flavors and intensity to a conditioned response within us, but they can also diminish in a relatively short period. Peace of mind rather than suffering is available. It is essentially the absence of a prolonged attitude, an attachment to unfavorable past events, including immediate ones, which brings about depression or expectation of an unsure future, which brings about anxiety. Our attitude or constant narrative about the feeling associated with the circumstance brings about suffering.