Buddhism...

According to Buddhism, the main source of our suffering is our preoccupation with our own desires. Suffering is said to be caused by selfish cravings and desires. The way to enlightenment, for Buddhism, therefore involves detaching from our narrow concern with ourselves, escaping the prison of our own desires and illusion. 

Do you think it is possible to live according to this teaching in the contemporary United States? Is there a conflict between what Buddhism teaches, and how we are encouraged to think and act in our society? What are your thoughts on this. 

I agree that the main source of our suffering is the cause or our selfish cravings, our indulgence to our impulsiveness. It plays a part to why we're having a hard time when it comes to presenting ourselves to what we need. The way to enlightenment involves detaching from our narrow concern with ourselves escaping the prison of our own desires and illusions, i believe its possible to live with this teaching. We suffer everyday and for all reason are related to personal reasons, money problems are encoutered almost every minute in a persons life. But also there are other reasons some things in our lives like for example the things that get us affected from work, from school, from relationships, stress can brought us suffering.

Greed keeps us in sight of the impulsiveness we decide for our lives, i think that is 1 reason that there is suffering, the desire of wanting more for more than what we have. In life we suffer because we wanted to reach something higher standards but instead of using the suffering as a lesson and learn from the mistake we made. But instead we use it as an excuse to create more stress and end up in more suffering.