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in Theravada Buddhism that life is a suffering, suffering is due to craving there is a way to overcome craving and the way is to overcome craving is the eightfold path, middle way?

This is the core teaching of all traditions of Buddhism. And Buddhism is not about words or concepts. It is about experience and cannot be fully grasped with words. As an example, try explaining to someone who has never had an orgasm what an orgasm feels like .. no words can convey the experience of this, and no words can convey the experience of Buddhist realities.

Life CONTAINS suffering .. it is not always suffering, but some degree of suffering, loss, disappointment, discontent, etc … we all have this. And we all die, with many of us declining into old age. And of course there are accidents and illnesses. Fears, anger, etc. Through meditation, we train our mind to focus, and as we become good at this, we start to observe ourselves as we walk through our day .. it becomes very obvious how little joy and peace there is within us, how much we rely on what we do NOT have but HOPE to have. But you have to observe this first-hand before you SEE it. With Buddhist skills, your thoughts, emotions and suffering never stop … but how YOU react to them changes. Suffering may happen still, but you are not miserable over it.

As for our attachments and aversions being the cause of our suffering … this is not something you will grasp intellectually. You have to have that trained mind that observes the action-reaction, the trigger-consequence, the cause-effect. AS you begin to see that it IS your attachments and aversi ons, and even your very wish TO be happy all the time, that makes you miserable … well, then you start to change how you react and relate to life.

The Eightfold Path is just a general LIST of approaches and techniques that, if done properly and for enough years, DOES start to tame those wild emotions within. The list is not the techniques or instructions. Does start to produce compassion, both for your own folly, but also for others .. which leads to feeling a greater sense of connection with others and with life in general. And as you stop trying to repress your sorrow, you also stop repressing your joy. You start to be able to live life with vibrancy and openness, and live in this moment, rather than always being distracted by the past, the future or by current distractions that we seek to avoid facing inner discontent (all of our pleasures are an attempt to avoid having to look at ourselves).

Basically, Buddhism is a journey into yourself, undertaken with skills that you develop. In Buddhism, you learn from experience, not from concepts or words. And you are your own teacher … although there is great benefit from working with the guidance of someone who is further ahead than you are (a qualified teacher) .. it is like wanting to become an Olympic skater: No words will give you the skills, and you stand a much better chance of mastering the skills if you have a coach … and how you progress in mastery depends on how much discipline and application you use.