Are you ready to heal?
Before you start healing someone, ask them if they are willing to give up the things that have made them sick.
- Hippocrates - physician of the antiquity - 460 to 370 before the year zero
A sentence that could also have come from Buddha. For Buddhism, according to the great teacher, is about refraining from the behaviors that make us suffer.
But most people don't want to do that, they cling to people, things and events because they promise themselves security and safety from them, although these feelings can at best be a fallacy.
Because everything is transient, nothing remains, according to Buddha, the only thing that helps here is to deal with the truth, to express the certainty, to perceive, to accept. We suffer because we know that everything will pass away, we, our loved ones, our possessions, our city, our country, our planet, nothing will remain.
But suffering is a pure choice, do I suffer or refrain from suffering? And deep inside we also know why we suffer, not because of spurned love, past youth, expired energy, lost wealth we grieve, no, we grieve because we are impermanent, only because of that our emotions are stricken.
An awakened person will not suffer any more, no matter what may happen, he will accept the situation with stoic calm, go about his work in peace, no matter what hurricane may rage around him.
When a seeker meets a teacher and this teacher speaks of the cessation of all attachments, then not everyone concerned wants to hear this, most people are still stuck in their old structures, the philosophy of Buddha comes from far away, slowly penetrates only through the Western culture, the opinions, the views, the belief systems are too different. But what is the use of holding on to suffering, when we already know the end.
If you philosophize about this clearly and soberly, you will soon find out that there is more than a grain of truth in the teaching of the Indian prince. If you want to be cured of your suffering, you must first make the determination to refrain from suffering.
It is a simple act of will that is at the beginning of your journey, whoever wants to follow the path of Buddha must decide this once, then the rest will follow all by itself. In order to leave suffering behind you must first have experienced a fair amount of it, then your willingness to look at other worldviews increases.
The way is the goal, the true path to the end of the sufferings!

Oh, how we live so happily without sickness among sick people, while people stagger through life sick and infirm.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480

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