Inner Alchemy How to End Your Suffering and Stop Contributing to the Suffering of the Collective

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At the root of suffering is a reaction to reality as it is in the present moment. Suffering ensues when something wanted doesn’t occur or an unwanted thing does occur and there is resistance or reaction to the present moment. If there was no reaction to it there would be no suffering.

Reality is a result of perception. Perception occurs through filters that have accrued within the mental landscape over the lifetime. The stack of filters—or mental constructs—through which life is perceived determines the hue of individual reality (that then contributes to the collective). That is why no two people have the same response to a situation.