In the West, one of the things we most desperately want to avoid is suffering. And I am not necessarily referring to physical suffering, though we take great pains (pardon the pun) to avoid that, too.  No, I'm referring more to spiritual or personal suffering: the kind that is brought about when we run headlong into the proverbial wall of life at top speed - when we are sidelined suddenly on a Tuesday afternoon by bad news at work, or when we are rejected by the one we love and whom we thought loved us.    But let's be honest here: nobody anywhere wants to suffer. We spend billions trying to avoid it. But whether we like or not, suffering is a masterclass we are all enrolled in, and it visits us without regard to our desire to avoid or circumvent it.  We spend the majority of our lives in a frantic sprint away from pain. We medicate it, distract ourselves from it, and treat trauma as a "glitch" in an otherwise supposed-to-be-happy existence. But if we shift our ...