Suffering

The Budda said, “Life is suffering.” I know suffering, but I respectfully would like to disagree with the Budda. We all know suffering, and some of us have had more then our fair share, but life is -- just that… life is.
Suffering is a response to self-blame, not to life. When we perceive that the unkindness of others or nature is somehow our due, our suffering is great. But when we feel no self-blame, when we truly know, deep in our heart, that we are good, we are innocent - then we take the life handed to us without suffering it. That is not to say that we don’t feel disappointment or sadness, or even a spark of anger - but we do not carry it within us. We do not dwell on the upset, we move forward, focusing on the solution.
Our lack of self-blame allows us to be in touch with our true self, our innocence, our deservingness, and we move forward standing upright - not doubled over in pain. It is not suffering. We are feeling our feelings and our strengths, hopes, confidence… our self-love. We are moving forward in acceptance of what is.
If you defend your right to feel wrong or deny it when you do, you will experience life as suffering. But… you can be free of suffering and you can experience life as is -- and then choose to focus on the love, the good, the cup half-full.