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fund the consequences of our bad eating habits, this may also lead to unethical and immoral ways of funding our uninformed or mismanaged feeding of the body and its kinesia-driven greed and excesses. Education to Overcome the Suffering from Living One's Life As long as we have to continue to refuel the elements from sources outside of our body, we have to struggle to survive. This is the common suffering everyone in the world is facing. The moment we are born, we learn automatically that we have to breathe on our own in order to survive. Later on we learn to eat, to walk and so on through the process of growing up. We learn about how to make a living. We spend lifetimes learning about how to live our life as each stage of birth, old age, sickness and death comes anew to us in each successive life. Nonetheless, the Lord Buddha did leave us the wisdom in his teachings to help us discover the solutions to overcome and eliminate our sufferings. One of the most important lessons to learn is to how we can differentiate between need and want. In order to live happily, living in moderation is the key to influence the way we work and the kammā we create for ourselves. Finding the necessities to replenish the four elements essential to sustain life properly and knowing how to use them will enable us to alleviate or overcome suffering in living our lives without being deluded by desire for that which is neither necessary nor morally advantageous. Education to Overcome the Suffering from Living Together Humans are social mammals of an elite status. We need to live together as a community in order to survive. However, every member in society is driven by the need to survive. All are bound to be in conflict somewhere, somehow. Conflicts can start within the smallest unit of society — the family — and may spread like a cancer to invade at an international level of global proportions. Overcoming the suffering from living together requires us to understand ourselves as human beings without labelling anyone with race, religion or creed. Only then can we learn how to share with our family, community and humanity at large.