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Re: Life is suffering
It seems my fingers like typing "the" :-)
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM
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Life is suffering
was the first thing the historical Buddha expounded as Truth. Then came the why: Ignorance of the fact of no independent self existing self and the then the good news that there is a path to liberation from suffering and the then the path itself. Realizing the unsatisfactory nature of life as naturally viewed from the vantage point of a being born as human is the first step towards liberation. Those who do not realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with life as viewed from the ordinary human point of view has no chance of escape from this life of suffering.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 20, 2008 at 6:08 PM
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I can hear you Pat... but hmmm there is something off with that logic... Its not Live, suffering, death... as I see it is more like Birth ..wonder, growing up, love, happiness, children, smiles, grandschildren, legacy, death, rebirth and so forth and so on. True there is suffering thrown in there and tears and pain and struggle but hey, when you ad up all of it the good parts can and are most often larger than the down periods, and those "good" parts are so worth enduring the "bad" ones. The clasic case of the half full, half empty glass. Only you can pull you out of that depressive mood you are in. You have to make that decission, Your poem is great, you are talented, try to write about those silly things you might have forgotten about, like love and sunlight. You are not alone.
posted by
Sinome
on September 19, 2008 at 9:10 PM
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