250614 What I learned in my studies this morning 5

Today's Meditation(s):

The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (ed. by Melvin McLeod), Three Doors of Liberation

I don't know if suffering is necessary for enlightenment, but it certainly is a given in our world.

Given that suffering is present in the world, and that life cannot be lived without it short of becoming a bodhisattva or a Buddha, it's certainly at least coincident with enlightenment.