First a brief summary: the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha tells us:

1. We suffer.

2. It is due to our clinging to our desires.

3. There is a remedy.

4. The remedy contains taking action via a prescribed recipe.

I do not argue with the Buddha here, on the contrary, I hope he is right. At least the first two truths I feel I can verify out of my own experience; firstly, I suffer; and secondly, it is because I wish I and/or the world around me were different in some sense.

But then comes the number 3 and 4. Here the Buddha says that there is a remedy, that suffering can disappear. This raises questions.

Firstly, it tells us that our suffering has psychological causes. In other words, the problems are not really problems, they are just reflections of how the world is. The problem is that we interpret them as being problems. If we did not interpret them as being problems, well, then they were not problems at all. In that sense it can be said to be a psychological issue through and through. That is pretty remarkable, if you ask me. And again, it tells us that we ourselves are the makers of our interpreted reality, that the choice to rid human bondage is in our own hands.