Solution to Suffering?   

     "We all experience life as suffering," writes Andree Seu Peterson. There are moments of happiness, but they are only moments, preceded by suffering and followed by suffering, she says. 

     She describes her "sixth age" as a time of problems with her nose, side, teeth, eyes, taste...everything." Her children wonder at her happiness. 

     The Buddha's approach was a state of mind of detachment. "Buddha was right up to a point when he talked about cultivating a mindset," she says. "But the mindset that gives freedom is not detachment from reality; it is the embrace of more reality. It is truth that sets free, the whole truth."

     "What my children do not see is that I set my sights beyond this present world and therefore do not grieve as those who have no hope."

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