A Meditation on Suffering

It is human to want to avoid pain,

To side step suffering. 

But our suffering has a purpose.  

And, according to Buddhist teachings,

It’s inevitable.  

So, the trick is to not avoid suffering, 

But to accept that we will suffer, 

And find freedom in that awareness. 

So we can then move through life, 

Delicately dancing with our suffering.

Learning the lessons, 

Letting it evolve us,

And connect us to others.