“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.” I started reading Hardcore Zen out of interest after seeing it

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.” I started reading Hardcore Zen out of interest after seeing it recommended in a twitter thread. Still deciding about the book but this one stuck with me, that (physical causes aside) unhappiness can be a choice that you make moment to moment and that you can decide to change your mind