This is why the Buddha has us develop equanimity, patience, and acceptance. It's not the case that mere acceptance is all you need to do, or all you can do. If that were the case, there wouldn't be four noble truths with four different duties. There'd be only one: There's pain, suffering, stress, and your duty is to learn how to accept it. Once I heard someone say that the Buddha claimed to teach only one thing — pain and the ending of pain — meaning that in accepting the fact of pain, you're doing all you can to put an end to pain.
But that doesn't really end the suffering. And that's not what the Buddha taught at all.... He taught suffering and the end of suffering as two different things. There is a way out. There is an escape. Suffering does end. ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "The Uses of Equanimity"
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