According to Boorstein: the Buddha taught that the end of suffering was possible. We could, he taught condition the mind to such spacious clarity that our experience would come and go in a great sea of wise and spacious mind. Pain and joy would come and go and the mind will remain essentially tranquil. Its incredibly freeing to know you don’t need to be pleased in order to be happy.”

But my experience often makes me think that suffering is my daily bread.

Boorstein continued: Fearfulness does not necessarily have to be a big problem if we recognize that our fears are a result of the way we are wired most immediately from this life and who knows from what other lives.”