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By establishing the end points of a continuum as suffering and the end of suffering, we may make the actual experience of suffering the problem. Our focus could then be to try and alleviate suffering wherever we find it. But if the root cause of suffering is the entity we believe ourselves to be then the end of suffering must begin with that understanding.3 Suffering, we might say, is a symptom of the systemic problem of separation, and unless that is directly understood, we may lose the context of what the problem actually is and how to solve it.