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The "ill fitting axle" all the way down
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Don't believe everything you thinkThe liminal space Veteran
Dukkha literally translated comes out to something like Du (bad) and kha (axle-hole). So rather than a suffering that implies a disruption of something sound, dukkha says conditions are fundamentally unsatisfactory.
This has hit home recently as I've been involved with AI chats on problems and solutions. Over and over getting to the bottom of one thing pushes up something else. Grasping one solution causes other problems to flow out. The inertia to balance the scales tips over into injustice. Its tradeoffs all the way down.
I don't think that means we don't try. Trying is the only imperfect way we have to make things better or keep things good. Its just hitting home right now that there is no solid ground to stand on.
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Hmm groundlessness
"Every thing evolves, comes to mean nothing is true"
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
"...It lets us see each personal encounter as happening for the first time..."
I like that.
FYI this apparently is a paraphrase of what Nietzsche thought rather than a direct quote.
I think the Two Truths of Buddhism would say Nietzsche is only half right. There is no absolute truth, or rather there is no unconditioned, fixed truth. But conventionally the world is still conditioned, non things combine to create other non things. "Trees" grow out of the "ground" rather than "clouds". So we can let go of a lot and hold things much lighter, but we also can avoid falling into arbitrariness and nihilism.