they are talking about the TTC fam <| sep |> We don ' t seek to end suffering because we want to avoid it in Buddhism . We seek to end suffering because suffering itself is the product of forgetting our true nature . Pain doesn ' t imply suffering . Environments don ' t imply suffering . Circumstances don ' t imply suffering . It is forgetting the truth of our reality that implies suffering . We suffer because we have gone too far away from what is true , and have clung to what we believe . The ups and downs of life do not imply suffering . Misunderstanding them does . Peace is not a fleeting experience it is your very nature . You have a very deep intuition that it is the natural experience . And you can ' t say that it isn ' t because you know very deeply that it is all you are searching for . The problem is you are looking for it outside of yourself . The words peace , happiness , and love are synonomous with I . They refer to the same experience . The problem is that we identify I with a thought , or a concept . A small separate entity . This sense of separation IS suffering . It ' s not even the cause of it , it is much closer than that . The idea of two is the creation of suffering . I is the totality of experiencing more specifically , I is the knowing which the totality of experience is made of . There can ' t be this sense of separation when I is known for what it experientially and truly is .