Reply #60: I have studied Buddhism quite a lot [View All]

[johnnie]

And the question for this thread was sort of based on something I was thinking about at the time I wrote it.
The Eastern philosophies have changed my life where it concerns suffering and what it means to suffer. Things that I once thought were worth stressing about I no longer feel the need to stress out. My life is far from perfect, but the amount of time I lose sleep, break out in hives, feel depressed and all other things that result from "bad times" has been drastically reduced. I didn't "see the light" or anything like that, I just read a lot and meditated on a lot of things.
I believe that the ego is the main cause of most of our suffering and to break the ego down helps quite a bit on the amount of suffering we do. I'm not saying that everyone has to believe in the same things I do or even listen to what I have to say, but I sure don't miss the stress once had and I do feel a bit sad at watching people suffer so much.