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The third noble truth says that suffering ceases when we let go of trying to maintain the huge ME at any cost.

The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

We also change like the weather. We ebb and flow like the tides, we wax and wane like the moon. We fail to see that like the weather, we are fluid, not solid. And so we suffer.

“Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?”

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not-knowing is part of the adventure. It’s also what makes us afraid.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.