[VistaULTIMATEdownloadaPro]

I see many people suffering worse than I.

Hello, Nathan. You don't know that. This matter of comparing yourself with others probably isn't going to help you much. And judging yourself to be unworthy in some respect might be the same type of comparison. Unworthy compared to whom? Who is more worthy than you? If you imagine that some people are more worthy than you, then it's easy also to imagine that you are more worthy than some other people. None of this will help you come out of suffering.

The Buddha taught a path of practice that goes to the very heart of suffering. And here's something to consider: You don't have to go into the wilderness to find it. You don't have to go to a third-world country. You don't have to go anywhere at all. It is right here. It is right now. This is where you go to the heart of suffering, nowhere else. In fact sometimes, people go far away, searching all over, and miss what has been here all along. I would invite you to stay here for a moment, and just see what there is to work with, and see if it isn't part of what you need. In my experience this universe gives us what we need.

Suffering is. Escape is not an option. The Buddha did not teach a path of escapism. The Buddha taught a path of knowing suffering, seeing suffering for what it is, understanding suffering. When we begin to see how our lifelong patterns of greed, hatred and/or delusion lead to suffering, then we can start winding down those patterns, maybe even change them a little.

The struggle you describe is found in this very moment, right here and now, and nowhere else. Be kind to yourself.