'The Only Incorruptible Thing Is Equanimity' is both the title of a future pencilled book and my core philosophy of freedom and suffering. The Buddha taught that suffering is a constant of human existence and that freedom requires the cessation of suffering. The million dollar question is 'how does one end suffering in a world that is complex and bound in suffering?' The answer is that it must begin with personal psycho-emotional-physical transformation. Each human being is a cosmos, ecosystem, community, family and individual - there is no division yet there are relations. Therein lies the paradox. Human beings are both separate and connected, destabilised and stabilised at the same time. Humans navigate existence seeking a connection that feels complete, safe and separate. Connectedness and separateness are then two sides of the same coin. 'Such illusory separation and alienation form part of the Buddha’s claim that ‘everything is suffering’. However, there is, as is consistent throughout the Buddha’s teachings, a red herring twist. This is: that such conceptual alienation can only exist between ‘truly’ separated selves, therefore if there really is no separated self, there can be no true separation or alienation. This is just another way of stating that Buddhist suffering refers to the ignorance of 'no self' and not the problem of real alienation per se, otherwise there would be no potential to resolve problems relating to alienation. Therefore the Buddha’s claim that there is suffering, and there is a solution to suffering, relies upon the principle of separation of identity and alienation as being illusory. Otherwise, his claim would be that suffering exists and cannot be escaped or resolved. The Buddha does not deny that we look, feel and operate like individual selves. What he claims, is that how and why we do so is incorrectly understood. The theoretical framework of current neuroscience provides us with important conceptual tools with which to give new relevance to the early Buddhist understanding of these matter .' A Study of Ignorance, M F Wilson, 2016