According to Osho, the Buddha’s notion of suffering is not that life is only pain, but that pleasure and pain are inseparable, interchanging facts. Suffering grows from clinging to pleasure and rejecting pain; joy and hurt convert into each other. Wisdom sees the whole, lets go in time, and avoids extremes—dissolving fantasies of pure heaven or hell through a middle, watchful acceptance.
Life isn’t just bad or just good; they mix and change, and we suffer most when we grab the nice stuff or push away the hard stuff.