{"id":12462,"date":"2020-01-22T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:13:20","slug":"how-to-deal-with-endless-misery-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/22\/how-to-deal-with-endless-misery-and-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deal with endless misery and suffering?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw01222020-5.jpg\" alt=\"How to deal with endless misery and suffering?\" class=\"wp-image-12457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw01222020-5.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw01222020-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw01222020-5-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aw01222020-5-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>How to deal with endless misery and suffering?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIt&#8217;s a hard path, but one option is to follow Gautama Buddha&#8217;s lead and confront the truth head on: life is suffering. Through mindful meditation on the present moment, he accessed what he called &#8220;the deathless,&#8221; the insight that everyone suffers, and the soul lives on, and the way to understanding is through compassion for everyone&#8217;s suffering. The Christian path is not necessarily easier or all that different: know that your soul lives on through love.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hard path, but one option is to follow Gautama Buddha&#8217;s lead and confront the truth head on: life is suffering. Through mindful meditation on the present moment, he accessed what he called &#8220;the deathless,&#8221; the insight that everyone suffers, and the soul lives on, and the way to understanding is through compassion for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/22\/how-to-deal-with-endless-misery-and-suffering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to deal with endless misery and suffering?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12463,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions\/12463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}