The belief that we are individual beings who have free will is not what causes people to suffer.
What causes us to suffer, among other things, is the belief that life is meaningless, that we are merely physical and mental beings without any ultimate ground within or under us, that there is no divine plan, intelligence or meaning behind the course of our lives – and that therefore, it is up to us to control things which we cannot control, or to seemingly “win” at a ...
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