Alex Bunard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From the religious pont of view, I'd like to mention
that there is a danger in dilluting this term by
avoiding to look at it as 'suffering', and being more
inclined to translate it as 'mild frustration'.
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I agree that life is not an occasional mild frustration, but isn't "suffering"
a bit easily taken out of context? Maybe another way to say it could be "life
is resistance" or "life is work." It's true that the resistance between a
vehicle's tires and the road demands constant burning of your gas (and by
extension, your money), but it is only by that same resistance that the vehicle
can grip the road, direct its momentum, slow down/speed up, etc. Life is work
or resistance or suffering, but it doesn't have to be a full-time bummer,
anyone with me on that?! Maybe I appreciate the opportunity to do some work.
Or does "life is suffering" strictly mean suffering, hell? I'm pretty sure
that the first noble truth wasn't originally conceived in english. VL
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