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Anything you do WILL cause suffering

MystificationMystification
edited February 2011 in Buddhism Basics
Understand that right now. To be a person, to do things, to create karma, is to suffer. That's the first noble truth. Therefore, NO MATTER WHAT, you will suffer. It is all the same. Try to think like the buddha. Don't accept anything else than the real truth. There is suffering, and there is freedom from suffering. The only way which you can be free from suffering, is to fully accept suffering, and be at one with all of it. Accept the moment as it is. Don't crave anything else, or cling to what you have. Just accept what comes. Here's the quirk. If everything in samsara is suffering, and you can understand that nirvana is not separate from samsara, then you are free to just be an individual. Be yourself. There is nothing to live up to, for you have accepted all suffering that your actions may produce. You welcome it. That is how we are freed from suffering.

Comments

  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    Just be here now. Right now where is your suffering? Lol.
  • MystificationMystification
    I would like this to be renamed: "To be free from suffering, you must accept suffering."
  • robotrobot Veteran
    TJ,you're back!!
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    Total surrendering and acceptance to what is. Meow.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    TJ,you're back!!
    Yes, back - and gone again.

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