Why Acceptance Matter

All beings desire happiness, safety, peace, and comfort. We desire what is satisfying, pleasurable, joyful, and permanent. 

However, the very nature of existence is impermanent, always changing, and therefore incapable of fully satisfying our desires.

Inevitably we experience frustration, anger, loss, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction. Afflicted by such thoughts and emotions, we tend to speak and act in negative ways which causes further suffering. 

Therefore our dissatisfaction and suffering do not come from outside of ourselves. We cause our own suffering when we fail to realize that impermanent nature is incapable of providing constant satisfaction for our cravings, needs, and desires.

life is in constant change and changes such as birth, old age, sickness, and death can bring dissatisfaction or suffering.

Suffering may arise from being associated with people or conditions that are unpleasant, from being separated from people we love or conditions we enjoy, from not getting what we desire or from getting what we desire and then losing it. 

Even our own thoughts and feelings are impermanent, and constantly changing. inevitably, all physical, emotional, and mental conditions will change.

To overcome dissatisfaction and suffering, it is essential that we clearly identify the causes of this experience; we deeply feel and fully understand these causes; finally, we choose to abandon remove, and stop creating the cause of our suffering, If we acknowledge the presence of dissatisfaction and suffering; we understand the very nature of suffering and we can embrace suffering compassionately without fear or avoidance.