Teachings of Buddhism is that unhappiness is caused by desire and avoidance. Desire for things we like and avoidance of the things we don’t like. Suffering is a lack of acceptance of how things are, so we run away from things we don’t like, and we chase the things we like. This is the wheel of desire suffering in Buddhism.
Pain is unavoidable but suffering is optional. Pain will happen and there is going to be loss and unpleasant situations in life. How you choose to experience them is where suffering will happen.
When a shooting star happens you become absorbed in it and didn’t think about anything else. For those 2 to 3 seconds as the star shoots across the sky that is all you think about and all you experienced. When it is all over, the essence of the experience was transitory. Pain can be short-lived and suffering optional.
Submitted by SMAI analyst Pamela Chambers
Kevin j Palmer is a financial industry veteran devoted to challenging economic injustices by empowering others to attain Financial Freedom. His proficiencies are rooted in decades of driving performance for Wall Street giants Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber. Then, as Managing Director at Strategic Management Advisors where partnering with other executives, he built better broker-dealers by improving business models during an industry paradigm shift. Opposing power in the hands of the too few, this writer, rebel, producer, poet exploded into advocacy to end economic abuse and assure morally achieved wealth. Humbled by blessings and aversion to seeing suffering, this unabashed champion of financial justice also participates in wildlife rescue, environmental stewardship–and as recipient of the Governors Archaeology award, is fascinated by the lives of individuals who lived thousands of years ago.
COO / Co-Principle Palmer Private Equity Dates EmployedOct 2017 – Present Employment Duration3 yrs 4 mos LocationScottsdale AZ.
By then I had my fill of traveling around the country making myopic security industry owners richer and began doing behavioral research exclusively—not to mention indulging in an old bad habit of Day Trading. Soon, as a give back, so to speak, I began advising the Governor and State Treasurer, pro bono, on how to navigate the Great Recession that we were in the middle of, by keeping businesses open and attracting new enterprises to Arizona. As it turned out I discovered that “we the people” were merely slaves to a self-serving system. My years on “The Street” taught me to understand tone of the tape and how to dull beta and enhance alpha. Working with empty suits who had escaped to government because they would have failed in the private sector, quickly resulted in my frustration. Changing course, I began using my research to write, albeit seditiously at times, about how to resist falling prey to corrupt political machinery that shackles common mankind for its own benefit.