There are two types of suffering in Buddhism, physical and suffering that arises from ignorance and attachment. The entire point of the Buddhist philosophy is t

There are two types of suffering in Buddhism, physical and suffering that arises from ignorance and attachment. The entire point of the Buddhist philosophy is the cessation of the second type of suffering. Enlightenment or nirvana is a state free of suffering and is the goal. It comes with an idea of escape from the cycle of birth and death, which is often construed to be mystical but is more an escape from the attachment of meaning to birth and death, along with entanglement in thought and emotion, pleasure, avoidance of pain, etc. This state doesn’t a lack of emotion, including negative ones or a lack of unpleasantness, but a lack of anxiety, depression, rumination, and the variety of other ways we torture ourselves with. But no, escape of suffering is exactly the point. The premise is the unenlightened life can’t escape suffering, but there is a path, which Buddha compiled and taught from the Indian mystics of his day into a highly structured practice with exhaustive documentation on the detailed nuances of the human experience with a direct description of how to become enlightened through the practice of meditation, specifically vipassana, and teachings of how suffering arises and what motivations to cultivate to achieve release. Edit: forgot to note the first type of physical suffering becomes merely unpleasant once you release your attachment to not feeling unpleasant and can accept it as part of the ever changing nature of reality and a fundamental acceptance of impermanence- that this too shall pass and the pleasant ends the same as the unpleasant and there are not naturally superior states