In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering.
In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering.
Man the Buddha would be so disappointed with the responses in here.
If shaving your head and wearing robes absolved us of suffering we would do that to our children at birth and throw them out the door for they are already perfect.
If thinking the word happy was enough to make someone truly so the world would be a different place but that is not the case. We must make many stands and apply ourselves in several aspects to be resistant to the suffering. And it does not end.
But it does not mean you are free to halt action or pushing for better. If you cling to a single aspect of stopping the suffering you do not change as needed to live within a changing world.
There are 8 aspects to living a life of reduced suffering so try not get stuck on one and miss out on all the others, sometimes you must change more than just your mindfulness.
Yeah. Fuck, not all of us are even ready to escape samsara. I’d love to go again when I’m done. I understand it will suck, but it’s what I want. Nirvana is nearly impossible with that in my heart. Instead I am better off living a life of kind wisdom and trying to find my way to staying middle class in future lives.
Sometimes you’re miserable because you’re thinking guarantees it, other times you’re miserable because you’re not planting the seeds of joy, but expect to harvest it anyways.
Or don’t listen to me, I’m not even a Buddhist, I just bothered to figure out what they think is wrong with me
That’s fine. Did you know according the people “in charge” of Buddhist sects there are only 28(ish) people who have reached nirvana and they even say that they are all reincarnations of Gautama, which makes the whole escaping Samsara thing kinda a losing battle for all of us if you think about it for a second.
Mahayana even doesn’t agree and says that none of us get out of it until all of us do (which at least hold consistent that you can’t have humans suffering if there are no humans left)
I think you may be looking to much into it though. But apparently so am I.
Sometimes you are just miserable.
And sometimes you aren’t.
I wish you well on your path however you choose to go it, and if you choose nothing at all I hope the fates are kind.
I think you summed it up well. We’re overthinking this. But also I approach Buddhist philosophy like I approach all philosophy. I’m reminded of how a couple friends of mine open relationship classes they teach “if this helps you wonderful, use it, and if it doesn’t that’s ok too.”
The whole package is great, but it’s not for me but wisdom often comes from the contemplation of ideas, including ones you don’t adopt.