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Suffering exists. Suffering arises from attachment to desires. Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path.


Your desires come from other people desires, because of mirror neurons. What we call "Me", our entire personality, our "Self", is 100% made of many other people "Self" (explains "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with"). Rather than suffer from your attachment to desires, we can indeed control what we desire.


The lack of desires can also lead to suffering.




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