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Date Posted: 14:41:41 06/13/14 Fri
Author: roski
Subject: The Development in the Understanding of Life and Suffering

Date Posted: 16:22:37 11/08/12 Thu
Author: rsm
Subject: The Development in the Understanding of Life and Suffering

The Development in the Understanding of Life and Suffering

In the previous Hindu thinking it was desire and attatchment to the impermanent changing things of this world which leads to suffering.

But now, this new central buddhist texts seems to suggest everything is suffering, a preconditioned permanent state, and an eternal truth! - do we truly think this was buddhas middle way?

I believe that the 1st truth as recorded in the Mahasatipatthana must be largely the work of a commentator. If Buddha was enlightened - then he surely had something new .. something which wasnt already in the Hindu texts ... something which he had become enlightened about ...

And to my thinking it would all make some sort of deeper sense if the translation was "the wheel of life and death is not running smoothly" - and as buddha appears to be saying in the 2nd and 3rd Truth, that it is not even the changing nature of the world - but our attitudes - how we perceive feel, understand and relate to life which is not running smoothly.

I accept the traditional view that buddha left home originally to find the truth about suffering, but in my opinion, that is only a part of what he found : the truth about the wheel of life and death.

If you are a buddhist whichever branch - please let us think "clearly compreheding and mindful, having overcome grief and covetousness"(5) ... free of hoping that these are the buddhas actual words .. free of years of tradition and honoured teachers.

These texts are all we have of buddhas thinking ... but i believe to unquestioningly maintain that they are all the exact words of the buddha, is now, in this present age, simply causing suffering and much unecessary confusion in the world.

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