Suffering

Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it, - your thoughts about what you did or did not do is the cause of all suffering. Suffering is a result of your belief in free-will, or rather an assumption that you have free-will. Take away free-will and suffering vanish. What ever you do the ego goes on finding new causes to suffer. You are an egoist, as everyone else. Some egos are very gross and some are just on the surface, and they are not so difficult. Some are very subtle, deep down, and they are the real problems. This ego comes continuously in conflict with others because every ego is so unconfident about itself. Is has to be - it is a false thing. When you don't have anything in your hand and you just think that something is there, then there will be a problem. If somebody says, "There is nothing," immediately the fight will start, because you also feel that there is nothing, other makes you aware of the fact,- ego is false, it is nothing. How can you miss knowing it? A conscious being - how can he miss knowing that this ego is just false? And then others say that there is nothing - and whenever the others say that there is nothing they hit a wound, they say a truth - and nothing hits like the truth.You have to defend, because if you don't defend, if you don't become defensive, then where will you be?