Liberating Ourselves From the Bonds of Suffering

Enlightenment is not the complete elimination of all problems. Instead it is the ability to see through the difficulty and realize those problems are illusions. Suffering is not the experience of pain; it is the experience of the relationship to pain. When we can transform our relationship with the difficulties in our lives and realize they are opportunities and no one is better qualified than ourselves to overcome them, by doing this we can liberate ourselves from the bonds of suffering.

Lecture on the Lotus Sutra