Michael, What is your understanding of dukkha? And how did you come to that understanding?
Marsha On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:40 PM, "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/11/2013 9:32 AM, MarshaV wrote: >> RMP: "When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they >> too interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide." > > A lot of it goes back to that terrible mistranslation of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha as "suffering.". That introduced a > dry-hair, scratchy-shirt Puritanism we see in American Buddhism to this day. > > The Noble Truth is more like, "Like gets out of joint / doesn't run smoothly." > > The relation to ZMM and Lila - both of which have to do with smooth/unsmooth > running - is obvious. > > > MRB > > 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
