By Norman Fischer — 2017
Norman Fischer explains why it’s suffering that gives us the incentive, vision, and strength to transform our lives.
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CLEAR ALL
As human beings, our predominant agenda is to survive. The instinct is deep in our DNA. Of course we want to stay alive, but now this instinct has become more of an emotional response. It's less about a threat to our actual existence and more about the barrage of perceived threats to our ego.
As long as we have bodies, we will have physical pain. Buddhism promises no escape from that. What we can change is how we experience pain.
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