Most of our thoughts & beliefs are attempts of the Mind to realize itself and bring about religions, philosophies, sciences, cosmologies, collective- ego- and innumerable other constructs, and thus plenty of confusions concerning its true nature.
Funny how things work⌠
And yet â Iâm beginning to understand Socrates in a very different way.
His famous line, âI know that I know nothing,â 
âŚmakes a lot more sense when you realize this:
When someone has no compass of understanding,
they end up copy-pasting quotes from some ârespectedâ idiots â and then start believing them. 
Belief is just a herd instinct â mental livestock behavior.
Itâs belief that turns any knowledge into dogma and mindless obedience.
Because itâs either belief â or itâs reason.
You canât build reason on the foundation of faith. 
Theyâre fundamentally incompatible.
So start simple:
Donât believe any authority.
Use your own reason.
Reason: a mind divided by doubt, capable of holding contradictions.
Mind: a tool for processing information.
If you donât get this⌠well, keep believing in someone elseâs nonsense â
and wonder why the world keeps looking like a madhouse. 
Begin by anchoring your concepts, using words/symbols, to perceptible, independently verifiable, actions.
Serious researchers of all ages consider ignorance of the true nature and capabilities of the mind the major problem of mankind
I bet if we knew all of our capabilities, it would just multiply our problems, unless we made all of our capabilities pivot self=other.
The reflection/projection capability of the mind is the cause of many of its troubles, and their solution as well, as it can bring about a state of mind that supersedes subjective/ objective, internal/external and many more of the dualities that confuse the mind
.
Why suffer if you donât have to, or if itâs avoidable..
Masochism? Itâs so passĂŠ.. so best to move pass it.
suffer = undergo, experience (Merriam-Webster)
.
The word âsufferâ to me always comes with negative connotations.. itâs not an endearing word to me, but hey.. 
All our perceptions, those to which we give names and assign form, colour, or no matter what attributes, are nothing but interpretations of a fugitive contact by one of our senses with a stimulus.
The phenomenal, tangible world is movement, not a collection of moving objects, but movement itself. There are no objects âin movementsâ, it is the movement which constitutes the objects that appear to us : they are nothing but movement. This movement is a continued and infinitely rapid succession of flashes of energy.
Suffering and need.
Need/Desire
Need = lack, caused by continuous interactivity - flux.
Desire = product of consistently successful satisfaction of needs, producing excesses.
These excesses can be directed to self-healing, growth and reproduction - libido.
Both need and desire are experienced as physical and mental stress - spiritual suffering - requiring satiation - needs requiring replenishment of energies, desires requiring expunging of accumulating energies.
If needs/desired are left unsatisfied/ungratified for a period of time they rise to the level we call âsuffering.â
An organisms inherited constitutions, coupled with its experience with suffering, determines the degree it can tolerate pain and suffering - its suffering threshold.
Modern sheltering reduces this threshold, making suffering a tool for mass control.
Existence is experienced as suffering.