It’s easy to find a scapegoat for our problems: ‘If my mother had really loved me or if everyone around me had been truly wise, and fully dedicated towards providing a perfect environment for me, then I would not have the emotional problems I have now.’

This is really silly!

Yet that is how some people actually look at the world, thinking that they are confused and miserable because they did not get a fair deal.

But with this formula of the first Noble Truth, even if we have had a pretty miserable life,
what we are looking at is not that suffering which comes from out there, but what we create in our own minds around it. This is an awakening in a person – an awakening to the truth of suffering.

And it is a Noble Truth because it is no longer blaming the suffering that we are experiencing on others. Thus, the Buddhist approach is quite unique with respect to other religions because the emphasis is on the way out of suffering through wisdom, freedom from all delusion,
rather than the attainment of some blissful state or union with the Ultimate.

Ajahn Sumedho

Source: “The Four Noble Truths (Illustrated Edition)
Page 35 – 36

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