I decided to reread Steve Hagen's book 'Buddhism Plain and Simple'.
"What is the Basic human problem that no apparent remedy will cure? What is
our existence all abut? How can we ever possibly comprehend the whole of it?
And yet isn't knowledge of the Whole --- knowledge that's not relative or
dependent on changing conditions --- precisely what would be required to free
us from the doubts and dilemmas that cause us so much anxiety?
"We long to be free from our confusion and discontent, not to have to live
out our lives chained helplessly to uncertainty and fear. Yet we often do not
realize that it's precisely our confused state of mind that binds us.
"There is a way to move beyond this ignorance, pessimism, and confusion, and
to experience --- rather than comprehend --- Reality as a Whole. This
experience is not based on any conception or belief; it is direct perception
itself. It's _seeing_ before signs appear, before ideas sprout, before falling
into thought."
(Hagen, Steve, 'Buddhism: Plain and Simple', Tuttle Co., inc., P. 2)
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