Chuckle...I viewed it this way...! Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to suffering/uneasiness (dukkha) in one way or another.-- Cse we inclined to want things that the our nature and when we dont have it then we suffer/are unhappy.
Suffering is caused by craving. - focusing too much on this want will certainly cost you your happiness. Suffering ends when craving ends.....so you can attempt to kill the craving or pursue it and overcome it and sit back enjoy the exhilaration. Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the path laid out by the Buddha. .. . . .I don't necessarily agree but I certainly do hope Steve did get there. * * *I don't like paying for stuff on the Apple market but I do appreciate and respect the genius in Steve for the I as in Innovative.* -- Ismail -- *Did you know impossible is not a fact and that it is an opinion. * *And that impossible is just a word preferred by those content to live in the world they've been given rather than to explore the power they have to change it. * On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > So it turns out that Steve was a Buddhist... which got me thinking... > > The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism > > * Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to suffering/uneasiness > (dukkha) in one way or another. - Feel ya there Steve! Cancer is definitely > a suffering. > > * Suffering is caused by craving. This is often expressed as a deluded > clinging to a certain sense of existence, to selfhood, or to the things or > phenomena that we consider the cause of happiness or unhappiness. Craving > also has its negative aspect, i.e. one craves that a certain state of > affairs not exist. - You mean like the craving you caused for shiny new > Iphone 4S/Ipad/Ipod/Imac!??? > > * Suffering ends when craving ends. This is achieved by eliminating > delusion, thereby reaching a liberated state of Enlightenment (bodhi); - So > were you just teasing us!??? > > * Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the path laid > out by the Buddha. - Or may be by installing Linux and removing cravings.... > ;-) > > > Rest well Steve J! I'll be keeping an eye out for any polo neck wearing > otters/elephants/cats/etc! > > Simon Vass > Managing Director > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > email: [email protected] > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Egesa Ronald" <[email protected]> > To: "I-Network Uganda" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, 6 October, 2011 4:47:08 PM > Subject: [i-network] Steve Jobs Dead?? > > > Interestingly, Jobs had a spiritual side and he was Budhist (according to > CNN) > > > > > Egesa Ronald Leonard > Magezi Solutions Ltd Sent from my iPhone > > On 6 Oct 2011, at 01:29 PM, "Ronald Kato" < [email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > As sad as it is to lose such a genius, the world will always remember him > as somone who revolutionised mobile communication. > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Rogers Karebi < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > Any news on Steve Jobs? > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ local/obituaries/steve-jobs- > apple-computer-co-founder- dies/2010/09/21/gIQAc14aOL_ story.html > Rogers Karebi, > Managing Director, > Dial-A-Service Ltd, > Plot 13 A Rotary Avenue, (Former Lugogo By-Pass), Kololo, > P. 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