The Buddha's Charge to Us Regarding Suffering

We are in a trance from birth to death. Prick the balloon and what do you get? Emptiness. Take two steps in the divine art of Buddhist meditation and you will find yourself on a planet you no longer recognize. Those needs and fears you thought with the very bones of your being turn out to be no more than bugs in your software. Essentially all we need to know. But in more classical terms this is what the Buddha had to say about this wrong view of self.