Life is not suffering but there is suffering in life if not lived skillfully.

Cause has to be real. Imaginary causes of suffering like fate, supreme creator and controller, planets in heaven, previous birth, past birth karma etc.… are not real.

Desires, aversions and attachments due to ignorance as the causes of suffering are real and within the reach of individual to address. Every individual has ability to become free from ignorance, desires, aversions and attachments.

Ignorance is due to forgetfulness. For example, you can misunderstand by forgetting the beginning, the source, the actual context or the greater context. You become self-ignorant by forgetting how you were, how you felt before gathering mind and self-conception from society, before associating or identifying with the known and unknown since the beginning of your life during infancy. You become self-ignorant by forgetting the beginning, why you are the way you are and from where are you becoming in the present.

Hence, enlightenment is due to dispelling ignorance through recognizing and remembering some forgotten but obvious truths. Spiritual enlightenment is to dispel self-ignorance by recognizing truth of your nature by remembering your natural innocence before formation of mind and self.

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