Just in case you forgot the first two, they are, in my words:
1. Life is Awry
2. Grasping and craving create suffering
Number 3 seems almost anti-climactic: You can get rid of suffering.
Sounds great huh? Everyone would love to have a life with no problems, no suffering.
But....
27 February 2012
22 February 2012
21 February 2012
Hairless Monkeys Grasping at the Air
Those crazy monkeys keep trying to grab the moon, never realizing that all they're seeing is a reflection of it in the water.
A couple hundreds of thousands of years have left us far less hairy than them, but it hasn't made us any less confused about what is around us.
A couple hundreds of thousands of years have left us far less hairy than them, but it hasn't made us any less confused about what is around us.
10 February 2012
Monkeys reaching for the moon
The condition that we find ourself in doesn't really make much sense.
Life, ultimately, is awry.
The way that this condition has been described in a lot of English translations of Buddhist texts is suffering.
Life, ultimately, is awry.
The way that this condition has been described in a lot of English translations of Buddhist texts is suffering.
07 February 2012
Rule #1 Life is Awry
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