What do we do when life doesn’t go the way we want it to? Following a sangha sharing about impermanence, Gyodo Sensei offers an introduction to the Four Relational Sufferings and how to work with them as koans: encountering the unpleasant, separation from the pleasant, not getting what one wants, and the five aggregates - the five components of human existence that create the illusion of an independent "self" and give rise to craving, clinging, and aversion. Comment end