What do Buddhists do at times of distress and suffering?

Answer 1

Recognise the one who knows distress & suffering.

Answer 2

I think that they try to understand the situation personally be also realistically. Buddhists try and use reason to defend what has happened and also to help guide them in how they should feel. Buddhists have a generally positive attitude towards life, and they back this up with the knowledge that life will inevitably incur suffering, so this allows them to see their hardship as an oppurtunity for growth.

Answer 3

According to the four noble truths:
1. Suffering: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
2. The cause of suffering: The desire which leads to renewed existence (rebirth) (the cycle of samsara)
3. The cessation of suffering: The cessation of desire.
4. The way leading to the cessation of suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path;

Those were given to Siddhartha after he reached enlightenment. So a Buddhist would follow the Noble 8fold path:
1. One speaks in a non hurtful, not exaggerated, truthful way
2. Wholesome action, avoiding action that would do harm
3. One's way of livelihood does not harm in any way oneself or others; directly or indirectly
4.One makes an effort to improve
5.Mental ability to see things for what they are with clear consciousness
6.Being aware of the present reality within oneself, without any craving or aversion.
7. Change in the pattern of thinking.
8. Understanding reality as it is, not just as it appears to be

doing this, finding the middle way (balance between indulgence and mortification), and meditating (the best step to become a bodi!), is how a Buddhist deals with suffering. Ceasing desire ultimately ceases suffering.

Answer 4

The first of the four noble truths says that life is essentially suffering. It is the goal of Buddhists to learn to rise above the suffering so that, although it may be painful, it is felt in the context of all of life. In so doing, we can bring about the proverb, "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

Buddha taught that suffering comes from longing, expecting or wanting things that are in truth unattainable. By finding through meditation the avenues to reduce or escape longing, Buddhists learn to take life in stride.

Answer 5

They remove their attention from the source of distress and suffering. All distress and suffering is merely "thoughts". What you think, you become. Remove your attention from the distress, and it is starved and dissipates.

Answer 6

throw away that which makes you suffer. worry not for those things that have no meaning as of today. live only for today and love the life that abounds about you, including that life that you have, today. let go. in nothingness is everything. in everything there is nothing. and so, you can just let go of everything and experience the peace of nothing, from which arises everything.

Answer 7

Meditate about getting rid of desires!

Answer 8

The attitude of even-mindedness, reflective level of noble right concentration, equanimity.

Answer 9

Siddartha said that in order to reduce suffering we must eliminate inappropriate desire.

Answer 10

meditate
come to terms w/issues during time alone in a quiet setting meditating
finally coming to inner realizations, answers, and then peace, compassion