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Dukkha is Permanent.
Dukkha is permanent. The source of dukkha in your life may not be the same next week as it was last week, but it's still here. The source of dukkha in your life may not be the same this week as it will next week, but dukkha will still be there. I know we are supposed to believe that nothing is permanent, and we are supposed to eliminate dukkha in our lives, but I strongly feel that dukkha is very permanent and will always be there to weigh us down no matter what we do to try and make it go away. Am I wrong? If so, tell me why I'm wrong.
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Personally I'd say it's always there, but it doesn't have to weight us down... ever.
With Metta,
Todd
It is only through not fully penetrating the Four Noble Truths that we remain bound in this vicious cycle; if we fail to understand that the 4NT are the real teachings that will free us and have gone off into "fancy" teachings we intellectualized as having greater value, then we must re-evaluate.
Yeesh. Talk about a statement that goes back to the very basics of what we should learn!
Without an initial right view and confidence in the Four Noble Truths we have not begun to walk the path of liberation, and so will indeed not escape dukkha until we can put forth the effort to do so.
Namaste
This is a problem for all of us, and it becomes even more apparent after years of practice when everything is dukkha, dukkha, dukkha. Fortunately nothing is ever as negative as it sounds, for when the mind shows such great despondency in recognition of the pervasiveness of dukkha, it is usually a sign that one is close to connecting the dots; close to the key insight where it will see dukkha as it arises within the mind.
"Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.101.than.html
With Metta,
Todd
Then that's your dukkha, but it's not ours....
You might have a problem with dukkha.
All I can say, is that I don't.
because I see that if I do - that's my perception.
Life is what it is, because it is what it is.
Dukkha is wishing it wasn't.
Put it this way:
Dukkha is like manure.
It can either anger and frustrate you when you step in it, or serve you marvellously when you put it on the roses.
I have some spectacularly prize-winning blooms, here....
Suffering is a part of life but it too is impermanent. Physical pain rarely lasts forever. Our negative feelings fade etc. Suffering is also impermanent because we die. Once we die, suffering ends. Some physical suffering is sometimes difficult to prevent or cure, however, Buddhism teaches us that much mental suffering can be prevented or cured. Buddhism talks about equanimity, that is, whatever, the external conditions you experience whether it be good or bad, you mind is unaffected, you remain at calm and at peace. Also, we can avoid much unnecessary suffering. The Buddhist monks and nuns suffer less than the lay people, because they have detached themselves from the worldly life and hence, whatever happens in the worldly life does not affect them. It is important to recall, that much suffering in our lives can be prevented and treated. Much of our suffering is caused by ourselves, for example, we own many possessions and hence, we get attached to them, and once something bad happens to the possessions, we suffer. As for suffering weighing us down, I disagree. Some suffering can lift us up. Nine Years ago, I suffered from major depression. It was only because I suffered that I was able to become wiser and find the way to happiness. My life is now great. Had I not suffered, my life may not be as good. Also, situations labelled as suffering are sometimes blessings in disguise. A relationship break up opens the doors to other relationships than maybe even better. Some suffering is bad, but some are good and even necessary. I am not advising people to suffer, but it is important to know, that suffering can sometimes help us.
Dukkha is illusory. We just have to let go of grasping and let our feelings be!
Then dukkha is just sensitivity and awareness...
You're wrong. By your own description, Dukkha is not permanent, it's unavoidable. It remains unavoidable, as long as desires remain. And desires are inexhaustable.
You say this doesn't make much of a difference? It's the difference between hope and depair.
"Sentient beings are without number, I vow to save them all."
"Desires are inexhaustable, I vow to end them all."
"The gates of liberation are infinite, I vow to enter them all."
"The Dharma is unsurpassable, I vow to attain it."
Basically what you are saying here is that the 3rd noble truth is simply not true and the Buddha was an idiot.
Its not a great idea to throw in the towel halfway through the first round.
Sometimes it rains..
Duhkka is reoccuring..but it's a carving of the block.
Now HERE'S one I get!
Lovely.
Sometimes a cloud of joy and wonder awakes us awhile to the true day: delicious with dews
GREAT poetry, TheFound!
I still don't get these things. In fact they greatly confuse me.
all I see is non-duality. I'm not 100% if that's what i'm supposed to be seeing or not.
the same reason that everything else is and isn't?
"WHY DONT I HAVE A BEARD"
the point is.. you can't know unless you directly experience ME or...come in contact with me..
this truth exists I don't have a beard right now and there are reasons for it..but no random buddhist book or spiritual teacher can tell you why i don't have a beard...some scripture may say why I'm "likely to not have a beard" or why I should have a beard....etc.. but you have to grasp these things by the balls and get to know their brothers sisters and cousins..
the term they use is... Grasp Directly.. i think
"sabbe sankhara dukkha"
"All conditioned things are unsatisfactory"
But missed the inference of the other two:
"sabbe sankhara dukkha"
"All conditioned things are impermanent"
and,
"sabbe dhamma anatta
All things are without self or eternal essence