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 can be in various forms like self-ignorance, ignorance about nature of experiences, ignorance about the world etc.

Self-ignorance can be due to the self-conception, self-ideation, inner-self, self-image etc. through association with self-delineating ideas like name, gender, relation, class, caste, race, religion, nationality, eternal self, etc.

Ignorance about life can be in form of hypnosis and illusions due to which you may get drawn and lost into pomp and drama of experiences without knowing correctly in the right context as it is.

Due to ignorance about the impermanent and changing nature of life and the world, you may get attached and suffer due to desires and aversions. Due to ignorance, you may live and act against the supreme law of change and impermanence.

Vicious Cycle of Suffering Through Desires, Attachments and Aversions.

Unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments are psychological blinders which can defile or spoil your mind and mislead your actions to produce undesirable effects of your actions for yourself or for your ecosystem.

Due to lifestyle based on pursuit of unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments, you diminish the quality of life’s experience. Life is too precious to be spent on unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments.

Dependence on fulfillment of unnecessary desires, attachments and aversions for happiness is just like any other addiction. Process of fulfillment of desires, attachment and aversions in order to feel happy can get wired in the process of life just like drug addiction gets wired into your physiology.

Unnecessary desires, attachments and aversions, as long as you have them in any form, can create physiological repression and psychological burden, thus clenching the autonomous involuntary springs of your natural rejuvenation and fulfillment.

If desires, attachments and aversions are fulfilled, you can feel the momentary pleasure but become more dependent on their fulfillment in order to feel happy.

Society exploits you by taking advantage of your unnecessary desires, attachments and aversions. Due to desires, attachments and aversions, you become victim of your own intelligence and fears just like a spider entangled in its own web.

If desires, attachments and aversions are not fulfilled, you can develop negative emotions and energy blocks. Fulfillment of desires, attachment and aversions can create new problems and suffering through the chain reaction of cause and effect.

If you feel guilty for indulging and satisfying your desires, attachments and aversions, it can trigger more stress of guilt and need for happiness. Due to ignorance, you can get trapped into the vicious cycle of indulgence, avoidance, suffering and stress.

Unnecessary desires, unnecessary attachments and unnecessary aversions are futile because impermanence is the universally constant law that all has to follow. Nonattachment is key to happiness in the impermanence of life and changing world.

It is not worth spending one and only impermanent life suffering ignorantly due to unnecessary desires, unnecessary attachments and unnecessary aversions.

How to Dispel Ignorance and Shun Attachments

Self-Ignorance can be dispelled through practice of right meditation, cultivation of seamless clarity of detached awareness free from self and living pure life without physiological or psychological defilements including but not limited to anger, jealousy, covetousness, conceit, hatred etc.

Free from self, you are like formless water, non-grasping, detached, flexible, nurturing, harmonious and well-adjusted with the reality.

Detached and self-aware without the Self, you do not grasp or get attached and you can stay aligned with greater scheme of life synchronous with the supreme law of change and impermanence.

Ignorance about the life and the world can be cured through practicing seamless clarity of detached awareness due to which you know correctly in the right context as it is.

When you know correctly through curiosity and beginners mind of an original explorer, you are free from the crutches of beliefs and misleading ideas. Without ignorance, you can relieve yourself from the entanglements of unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments.

You can shun attachments by living and acting in such a way that you enjoy life sustainably without getting attached, own without possessing.

You can live and enjoy life sustainably without possessing or getting attached by not investing yourself too much in the life and the world.

Acknowledging and accepting change and impermanence, you will remain detached and not grasp at anything. You will remain unburdened and without regrets by letting go what is not worth grasping.

Dispelling ignorance will help you to live life free from unnecessary desires, aversion and attachments. Without ignorance, unnecessary desires, aversion and attachments you will be at peace, secure, in order, naturally fulfilled and happy.