Re: Is life suffering? -- Adilbrand Noblesword's Hall of Warriors

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Date Posted: 10:46:20 02/13/02 Wed
Author: mvd
Subject: Re: Is life suffering?
In reply to: Mt. healthy mountaineer 's message, "Re: Is life suffering?" on 15:23:34 02/12/02 Tue

His premise, in more depth, states that men suffer most from misunderstanding and therefore inflict suffering upon others. I do believe this is true, yet I am not so sure that life itself is suffering, nor that we should have any goals in life to cure it. I do believe that anger and hatred are self-destroying feelings that do come about from suffering, but I hardly think that all life is suffering. Like you, I believe life is more something that should be laughed at and simply enjoyed for what it is. Many times suffering is a choice, a thing which the Lama also says, yet I have known many men and women (usually my closest friends) who live lives free from the kinds of suffering related to negativity and anger and jealousy and hatred.

My real question is this: When we set goals for ourselves, such as banishing suffering, do we not create more suffering as a result? That is to say, by striving to go beyond the calm, do we create bigger and bigger waves, the tips of the waves being happiness and the troughs being sadness. Can we have only total happiness and compassion without hatred and anger? The more we stretch towards happiness, the deeper the troughs of sadness must necessarily become.

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Re: Is life suffering? -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 13:47:45 02/13/02 Wed
Hmmm -- mvd, 14:39:36 02/13/02 Wed
Re: Hmmm -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 07:39:32 02/14/02 Thu
Re: Hmmm -- mvd, 10:30:18 02/14/02 Thu
Re: Hmmm -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 15:27:49 02/14/02 Thu
I'll give you that -- mvd, 10:10:27 02/15/02 Fri
Re: I'll give you that -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 14:41:07 02/15/02 Fri
Btw -- mvd, 13:43:45 02/15/02 Fri
Re: Btw -- mt. healthy mountaineer (i need a shorter name), 14:56:51 02/15/02 Fri
The contradiction: -- mvd, 15:02:01 02/15/02 Fri
Re: The contradiction: -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 15:27:11 02/15/02 Fri
Adilbrand's sites -- mvd, 15:50:21 02/15/02 Fri
Re: Adilbrand's sites -- Adilbrand, 18:25:31 02/15/02 Fri
Re: Adilbrand's sites -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 07:36:44 02/19/02 Tue

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