We all experience stress and pain in life, and how we try to escape from that depends on our mindfulness, wisdom and pāramī. Those who lack wisdom will use unwholesome routes—drinking alcohol, for example—that just work to dig themselves into a deeper mess. But for those with true intelligence, they'll seek out the Dhamma—that which is actually able to cure our suffering.

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