There is the subjective experience of suffering and the objective experience of suffering. Pain, disease, death, grief, injury, etc. are all real. It is usefu

There is the subjective experience of suffering and the objective experience of suffering. Pain, disease, death, grief, injury, etc. are all real. It is usefull to calibrate the subjective to be as close as possible to the objective so that we do not inflict additional suffering on ourselves on top of the objective suffering already there. Callibrating the subjective to ignore the objective suffering, to just want things to be the way they already are, is harmful because it causes more future exposure to objective suffering.