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The best response I have to this comes directly from Buddhism:
The Four Noble Truths
1. Life means suffering.
2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.
4. There is a path to the cessation of suffering.
QED
The Eightfold Path
(Wisdom)
1. Right View
2. Right Intention
(Ethical Conduct)
3. Right Speech
4. Right Action
5. Right Livelihood
(Mental Development)
6. Right Effort
7. Right Mindfulness
8. Right Concentration
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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