About the Book: The Big Questions of Life
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Loss is unavoidable; grief isnt.
Death is certain. And life? Well, life isnt certain. Its uncertainty,
unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is.
Often, we run blindly into fire, we step on snakes, we get entangled in
snares--these are the fires of desire, the snakes of attachment, and the snares
of jealousy and covetousness. If we are bitten, burnt and hurt, we call it
suffering, and believe it to be the way of life, when, in fact, we are mistaking
our pain for our suffering. We have little control over the