Hi MarshaV and All, I can't relate to a bottomless craving. IMHO In DQ/SQ metaphysics the indefinable is present. For variety Evolution in existence seems a more secure approach than thirst. I can experience the indefinable. Communicating that experience follows the metaphysical structure of DQ/SQ.
Joe On 12/19/12 9:14 AM, "MarshaV" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Suffering > > --- > "What Is the Cause of Social Dukkha? > > "According to Shakyamuni, the cause of our suffering is _tanha_, usually > translated as "craving" but more literally as "thirst." Nothing we drink can > ever assuage our tanha, because that thirst is due to an emptiness at the core > of our being. It is as if that core were a bottomless pit, something like the > black hole that astronomers believe lie at the center of most galaxies. No > matter how much we try to fill up our own black hole with this or that, > everything is swallowed up and disappears into it. > > "It is bottomless because our sense of self is an ungroundable construct. > Notice, however, the second noble truth does not identify our problem as > groundlessness. The problem is "thirst". --- not the emptiness at the core of > our being but our incessant efforts to fill that hole up, because we > _experience_ it as a sense of lack that must be filled up. The problem is not > that I am unreal but that I keep trying to make myself real in ways that never > work. This implies there might be another way to experience our > groundlessness." > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
