Is Life Suffering?

Life is suffering only when you keep reacting to it. Reacting intensifies the activation of pleasure and pain circuits. The guiding force of these circuits is survival instinct. This force is constantly at conflict with others in this world because of competition. Hence, pain circuits are activated quite often.

Just being tempers the circuits. The troughs and crests are smoothened by just being.

It is a life choice. Some people may enjoy the fluctuations. Some may like it smooth. People like me who have their circuits worn out will benefit from just being. Advances in all aspects of life means that we can optimize and customize these circuits. Perhaps advances in neurosciences will lead to the developement of individually customized mathematical models.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.