--- In [email protected], "carlos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand, the Buddha said life is suffering or something > like that, he said that because he saw hunger, disease, old age > and death on the one hand and on the other the frantic action of > the dualistic mind to obtain pleasure and to avoid pain. > As when one say suffering is depressing lets call it displeasure. > > He saw that pleasure and pain were two sides of the same coin, a > way of qualifying phenomena relative to something, the same case > with ugly and beautiful good and bad etc. > > He understood the futility of wanting to find only pleasure and > not pain because pleasure and pain are inseparables so when one > find pleasure, pain cames with it. As when one feels proud and on > top of the world because of having a new car and one sees a few > days later that one's neighbor got a more expensive one, or > someone winning a race and feeling proud while at the same time > having the thought , I was just on the last drop or air I could > have lost very easily. > > So that is the suffering he is talking about, the more one run > after pleasure the more pain one finds. > > So he finds awakening or the way of functioning in the middle way > with no pain and no pleasure, in that state, the mind is at peace > and because of that, is really happy ,happy for nothing, naturally > happy and compassionate which is call "basic goodness" as opposite > as being happy for something which would last only an instant. In > that state one would do things because one see them as necessary, > one could buy a new car because the old one is worn out not > because one has low self esteem and wants to feel more valuable. > > There it is when one see things as they are, not being good or bad > ,just being, because of that we just are, or better said because > we just are (no qualifying ego) things just are (no good and no > bad). One can Imagen what happen to fear, disease, old age and > death when there is no one qualifying them as good or bad. In > reality there is still one, qualifying, but it just steer the mind > in a direction without making dualistic conclusions. > > So as I understand, Buddhist practice is directed at reducing or > eliminate ego and realizing the middle way when in an awakened > state. > > Metta > Carlos
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