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is samsara funny?
Vincenzi
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sometimes one can only smile or laugh, at samsara...
When I throw a ball, the dog will retrieve it. He loves it. So we do it again.
I am bored after ten times; but not the dog.
He never loses any of his enthusiasm; not after years; not after eons; not after millions of times.
It is so unbelievably stupid!
Samsara (the idea of cyclic rebirth) is just like that.
We want - whatever it is we want in life - with all our hearts, in spite of the fact that we chased it millions of times before. We fear to lose - whatever it is we fear to lose in life - with the same intensity as ever; in spite of the fact that we lost it in every single life we lived since beginningless time.
Being a Buddha and seeing this clearly would feel the way it feels for me when I ask the dog: “Do you really want me to throw the ball? Again? You can’t be serious!”
I wouldn't really put the way a dog behaves in this way.
I think my dog is actually closer to Enlightenment as I am.
If i'm throwing the ball, he fully enjoys chasing after it. If we stop playing, he goes to sleep or plays by himself, still at least seemingly doing it like it is the best thing in the world. If i put away the ball he will search for it, cuz "she must've hidden it for me to enjoy the chase". He does not whine when he cannot find it, but goes to play with something else. He throws things over the stairs and then searches for them with his nose even when he knows where they are, just like i have "hidden his toy" when i put it away. When he sleeps, he sleeps like he is sleeping in the most luxurious bed in the world - but when it gets hot, he sleeps on the floor in the same way. He can sleep in any place we travel as if it was his usual place to sleep. When he gets beaten by a cat, he does scream for help, but he can play like nothing happened the next moment, not for a moment being like "why did this have to have happened to me?". Next time he doesn't run after the cat so he learns from bad experiences, but doesn't obsess about them.
If it gets really hot, he will not be unhappy about it. He will run in the sun and enjoy the walk in the same way. Then he will go and lie down in the shade like it is the best thing in the world.
He never worries about possessions. His only attachment is me and our family, this he could work on as it does cause him suffering when we have to go somewhere^^
But really, pretty much all the time he can live in the moment, with full attention to the now. How many of us can say that we can do that?
I guess you could compare a dogs persistence to chase the ball to us chasing wealth or other things - but there is a big difference, the dog will not as easily allow himself to suffer as we humans do. Dogs can let go just so much faster than us. If theres no ball, there is no ball. Big thing. Theres a pillow to be shredded
for one's education. It is the long slow but guaranteed method of enlightenment based on the old Spanish proverb: Spit in the air and it lands in your face.
That was an amusing post, thanks
Half serious response....
having said that...
mMOOOOOOOO!!!
half-serious response.
...because sometimes one can only smile or laugh, at samsara
Entering a corridor with many doors, and knocking on one.
It is answered by a big, fat, funny-faced clown - who proceeds to batter the hell out of us.
He leaves us in a beaten and bruised heap on the floor, and closes the door.
The next day, we knock on the same door, and the same thing happens.
And the next day.
And the next.
And the next.
And the next.....
One day, we knock on the door, but there is no answer. The clown has gone.
So...
We go looking for him.....