Comment on Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering

Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• 667@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve heard it out as all life is suffering. It can be a bit dark, depending on one’s headspace, but liberating if simply accepted.

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  • sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    as a buddhist i think this refers to the inherent struggle that is life itself. every organism is born hungry and needs to fight that constant hunger or die. life IS suffering, because only the living need to fight for every minute to just exist., All of our existential suffering falls from that

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      every organism is born hungry and needs to fight that constant hunger or die

      huh, and i thought hunger was caused by greed which is itself tied to the modern society

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      • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s a modern narative to misattribute or redirect a way earlier pain.

        There’s famine and pain all throughout recorded history, all around the globe.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i always read it a bit different

    all life is suffering means literally that. suffering is just another term for the process of being alive. suffering is the experience of all our emotions and everything that we can do in the world. this is suffering, contrasting it to the coldness and stoicism of death.

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like St. Vincent said: We’re all born screaming

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  • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can’t see it as anything other than a logical fact. If you are alive, you will ineveitably face loss, disease, countless other things outside of your control. The phrasing I read was “to live is to suffer” which is the same in the end.

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• sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone who is cautious on stairs, and has fallen on stairs, i can tell you that every second of worrying is worth avoiding the fall.

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• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t believe that “be[ing] at peace with suffering” is core to Buddhism. The ending of suffering is.

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