Is suffering really an illusion

Suffering will never chase you.
If you think back to it, there are probably times when you think it's sad or painful as a memory. However, if you eat delicious curry the next moment, I think curry will be delicious. At that moment, it disappears completely and completely.
When I go for a massage, I have nothing but a pleasant feeling at that time.
Suffering doesn't hurt people just because it just happened to happen that I thought about it the moment I thought about it. Nothing can beat the facts.
When you feel like it's going to continue when you think it's painful, your feelings definitely move away from the “now,” and you're probably catching and following after your thoughts. If you don't notice that kind of situation, they probably value delusions over facts.

I read it. I understand what you're saying. Suffering always accompanies you, doesn't it? That too is a law of this world. Suffering does not exist in the same way that you are in this world.
It is an unmistakable fact that people are born, become ill, grow old, and die. You can't help but be separated from what you love, and you always run into things you don't like, things don't go the way you want, you can't get what you want, and if you can survive by being convinced that this is life and this world, you will be freed from that suffering. However, it is humans who cannot attain such enlightenment.
No matter what kind of wise person you are, it's a reality you can't easily surpass.
If so, how can that suffering be reduced? Even if it is difficult to accept everything as it is, I think it is quite possible to take a close look at the current situation, accept it to the extent that one can accept it, and fit it into one's own way of life.
Life is about trying everything and failing. You can't clear anything easily. Life is about being able to tackle hardships through trial and error over and over again, and it also helps us overcome suffering.
Your life is still halfway. I sincerely hope that you will face that suffering firmly in your own life and that you will spend an important and fulfilling day from now on and grow.
I sincerely pray that your future will overcome suffering and be a future full of prosperity and happiness.
Please do your best for the future from now on.

Tsugumi-sama

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is a humble answer to the question.

Not everything is an “illusion,” and everything, including “suffering,” is sometimes expressed in Buddhism as “something like an illusion.”

The point is that it is “like,” or “like,” and it is not equal to illusion. Of course, there are also real illusions. Mirages, runaway waters, events in dreams, etc.

Also, even though it is an illusion, it actually has effective effects and functions; for example, if you touch ice, it's cold, and if you get caught by fire, you'll get burned hot. Ice and fire are illusions, and there's no way you can put up with it; cold things are cold, and hot things are hot.

Naturally, there is no change in the fact that suffering is suffering as long as you have actually experienced the effects of suffering.

However, speaking of where did such suffering come from, it does not suddenly appear from a place where there is no cause or condition, and there is always a causal relationship (cause and condition) leading to that suffering, then if the causal relationship that brings about that suffering is adjusted to a causal relationship that destroys suffering, suffering will naturally also be destroyed.

If it's cold and causes suffering, it means a cause relationship that warms you; if it's hot and painful, it means a cause relationship that cools you down.

After all, suffering can be destroyed by cause and effect. Buddhism is the teaching for reconciling that cause and effect.

I would be grateful if you could continue with your Buddhist practice.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

Let's compare suffering to an illusion.
There is a sheet of white drawing paper.
Draw a vertical line there.
Then you can do right and left.
If you erase the line, there will be no right or left.
Just draw a line on empty drawing paper to the right and left
You will be born. This is an illusion.
The illusion that the mind creates is drawing lines.
Illusions are, as long as you stop drawing lines or don't erase them
Right and left won't disappear.
In my heart, various standards of value and aspirations
When set (if you draw a line), good or bad, up and down, profit and loss, presence or absence
Various things are created, such as clean and dirty, happy and unhappy, and dissatisfied.
As a result of these, various things of joy and suffering are born.

Draw a circle in the center of the construction paper.
You can do it inside and out.
Inside is myself, outside is others, and the world around me.
Draw a circle where there were originally no boundaries
You are unknowingly creating your “self.”
Attach a name, evaluation, label, and various things to yourself
I have created a self-image, and I live my life by looking at it as myself.
I draw a circle where there's nothing and acknowledge myself
However, it is the source of suffering.
Self-image is also an illusion. It's fictional.
Once you see it as yourself, your suffering will continue.
My true self is before I draw a circle on construction paper
It's the entire drawing paper, and the ability to freely draw anything on construction paper,
It is the ability to perceive what appears there.
It's mind, consciousness, work, and power. It's life itself.
Tsugumi has great power that has no shape and cannot be defined.
Even with today's cutting-edge science and technology, one mosquito
No single ant can create a living thing from scratch.
Life far exceeds human strength and human intelligence.
Even if it's Tsugumi who far surpasses that human intelligence
That's why it exists. If there's no reason you don't have great power
I think.
It would be very foolish to view your self-image as yourself
I think so.
“The illusion I should have created is more powerful than me living in reality”
There was that. It may be a strange approach, but
I have the power to create that much “powerful thing”
I think it also means there is.
I don't think anger or suffering is something you don't want or welcome
It's not just about hurting,
Things that make me notice that are very important to me,
I think it's also something that will lead you there.
Along with the previous question, I wrote what I thought.