Suffering is the emotional state that comes from believing I NEED things to be different than they are.
That’s all suffering is. An emotional state stemming from a belief. And a false belief at that. Because there is no such thing as a need that isn’t being met.
There is no physical component to suffering.
Pain, maybe, but not suffering.
I can be in pain and not suffer. If I have no NEED for the pain to stop - if, in this moment, the pain can just be there, or in those times that I delight in the pain, (like when I scratch a mosquito bite for instance) - then at least in this moment, I’m not suffering. And what is life but this moment? I never live any other moment but this one, except in my imagination.
However much I may want things to be different or how much I may work to change them, when I recognize that I do not NEED things to be different than they are, I do not suffer.