The First Noble Truth That There Is Dukkha in the World

Buddhism is about alleviating the mind from the causes of suffering, which are very powerful in all of us. When I picture suffering, I think of a wild animal in a trap. The problem being like wild animals, they're not born in these traps. And humans are not born in the traps, but our memory banks don't record the pre trap situation. So we begin to associate the trap with who we are. We tell stories about the trap, take pictures of the trap, find other people with the same trap, go out drinking with them, dancing with them, marry them, have children with them and then give the traps to the our children. It's ridiculous