On 11/27/2012 7:04 PM, Edgar Owen wrote:
It's mostly mental suffering that Buddhism addresses in saying that
suffering is due to attachments, desires, and ignorance. Mental
suffering can thus largely be released and avoided by proper
understanding or realization in the Buddhist sense.
Point well taken.
But it is incorrect that life IS suffering. Life includes a very
complex mix of experience including suffering, pain, joy, happiness
and a lot of other experiences which are clearly NOT suffering. I'm
certainly NOT suffering right now and I'm most certainly alive.
Well, it is certainly true that life is not ONLY suffering. I merely
contend that it is an inescapable aspect of physical existence. So we
seem to be in complete agreement here:
But physical pain is an intrinsic part of being a flesh based being.
Even the most enlightened being is still subject to more or less
physical pain. ... from an EP perspective suffering responses are
rooted in evolutionary adaptations which is why we naturally have them
RAF
