Could just about sum up what – from a Buddhist perspective – all the suffering we do as human beings is about.

If you’re experiencing some kind of dissatisfaction in the moment craving is probably present.

Or you’re clinging on

To delusions that everything good or desirable in life should remain the same

My house is permanent; my job is for life; my relationship is never going to end; my life – is forever.

We may  - theoretically – know that life isn’t forever; but we live as if life would go on, and on, being how it always is – and somehow, that death out there – the death waiting for me, won’t actually be reached….yet… or not yet…. not yet a while….not for years and years and years…..not till i’m 90…..

I get to see – with a clarity that sometimes startles me – how clinging and craving hurts me

Whenever suffering is present in me, some sort of craving or clinging is always there too – like a cancer.

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