Stress/suffering – Pressure, strain; constraining force or influence.
A state of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tends to alter an existent equilibrium.
A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension, and is a large factor in disease causation.

Stress in its myriad forms is one hurdle to peace, contentment and well being of mind and body – our “just being”. Stress caused by life as it is – our daily struggle to just be.

Birth, old age, sickness, death, unpleasant people and conditions, separation from loved ones and pleasant conditions, not getting what you desire, grief, distress – all forms of daily physical and mental suffering and pain are classified as “ordinary stress” of day-to-day living.

Stress caused by conditioned states of comfort – thoughts of what relationships(s) to the world should be – our conditioned “being”, “individuality” or “I”.

Stress caused by change in conflict with our attachments and desirous clinging to mental and physical phenomena and states. Pleasant and happy feelings and conditions are not permanent, not forever - It will /must change… that is the definition of life – constant change and flux.
When life manifests this basic law of the universe – if we are not in accord/resonant with it, mental pain and stress is our life, this can hinder the flow of energy or Vital Essence available to mind and body facilitating dis-ease in the body and mind.

Conditioned mental states – our individuality and consciousness is a combination of physical and mental energies that are constantly changing. Things we see, hear, taste, feel, think and perceive are taken as “real/things that are permanent and unchanging” so we cling to those memories of things past, when dealing with the present moment – which is always new, fresh and ever changing – as if it will behave as in the past. Stress manifests in the self when we fail or encounter great difficulty in reconciling the moment with our past clinging and desires and future wantings.

The seed of stress… Fear nurtured desirous clinging. Desirous clinging to what we think life is or should be, desirous clinging to the need for permanence of the “good and pleasurable things” in life and the perceived reality of not gaining it or loosing it – are the seeds of an un-peaceful mind and a life of conflict wrought with and driven by fear, mental and physical anguish if the nature of things and its processes are not intimately realized and actualized. Not realizing the nature of life intimately for your self is the cause of pain, suffering and separation in life.

Understanding of this truth is not the remedy – the true traveler and practitioner of life must practice to stop, discard, and eliminate fear driven desirous clinging on a moment-to-moment basis and practice the application of the “prime principal” and its realizations.Cessation of desirous clinging (Mobilizing Vital Essence)Intimate realization of the “Prime principal or Vital Essence” through sitting meditation will penetrate, illuminate, clarify and enable the cessation of fear driven desirous clinging operating in our life when diligently applied in the moment.

Realizing the “Constant Way, Pure Principal, Vital Essence” in all things is true reality – absolute truth, which is beyond duality and relativity. The absolute non-knowing that there is no-thing absolute “in” the universe only the universe itself – this is the power of sitting “the non-knowledge and application of un-conditioned supreme wisdom”.