Let’s clarify our discoveries:
We can either suffer from our suffering, or we must understand it to end suffering. To abolish anguish we must understand it’s nature. WHAT IS SUFFERING? It is the face to face encounter with something that the false self doesn’t want to face. It is resistance against the Truth, against Reality. We resist the very Truth that could liberate us because we don’t recognize it.
Suffering is nothing more than an attempt by Nature to help us face illusions we don’t even suspect we harbor. “Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.” If we learn the lesson, we lose both the illusion and the pain it causes. If we resist, misery remains.
Do not think of suffering as something hateful or something to escape. To do this is to miss the meaning entirely.
Learn to use suffering wisely.
For what purpose?
To dissolve the very suffering.
As a practical illustration, suppose our distress is caused by a cruel remark from someone. Now, the distress arises because the remark fell on false self, whose very nature is sensitive, touchy. But as this artificial self fades away through psychological insight, what entity is left to suffer? If thousands people throw black paint against the air, it remains clear and undisturbed.