DOES CHRISTIANITY OR BUDDHISM CARE IF THE EXPERIENCE OF JOY IN HEAVEN IS REAL OR NOT AS LONG AS YOU THINK IT IS? 

Buddhism claims that life is evil in the sense that it is danger and suffering so the only way to deal with it is to face the reality that all is bliss and they are not real. It just assumes that this unravelling, this nirvana experience that it is all in our heads, is telling us what is real indeed. But it cannot convince us that even if nirvana can be found that it is more than just real to us and actually real.

In fact, as the priority is to end suffering, Buddhism does not care if nirvana is a reality or something that is in your head. If it is a fantasy, if it is like programming a computer to think hot is cold, if it is changing your senses to get them to lie to you, that is fine with it.

While few religions go as far with Buddhism as that, Christianity says that we need God and prayer for all suffering turns us against life and we need to see through that. So there is percentage of all suffering that we cause ourselves.

Now again if ending suffering is the priority, Buddhism and Christianity both must want the accuracy of the senses turned off and reversed so that though there is pain and suffering there you are blocking yourself from registering it.  Just as a movie is registered by your brain as real and as truth, are you able to sense pain as pleasure, depression as joy?

Anyway is it possible to change whatever sense causes you to suffer to perceive it as something painless if not enjoyable.

Such a suggestion makes us wonder if our joy is really a mask put on suffering, that we are fooling ourselves. It implies that suffering and evil are not real, but only us letting ourselves experience them is the problem.

If evil and suffering are real and the mind is able to face them but misinform so that they are neutralised or seen as good then suffering is ultimately the victim's fault.