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The term "suffering" in the GP's post should, IMO, be understood as "pain", which is nowadays more tuned-up to the Buddhist/Nietzschian concept of suffering. Ma
by lolcraft 16y ago
The term "suffering" in the GP's post should, IMO, be understood as "pain", which is nowadays more tuned-up to the Buddhist/Nietzschian concept of suffering. Maybe we westerners have identified too much the term "suffering" to "sadness", the latter being the worst, most passive way with which one can react to pain.
- ahoyhere 16y agoThanks, that's exactly what I meant. I didn't think about how many people were unfamiliar with the definition in the Buddhist/Nietzschian sense, as you put it :) I definitely don't mean that life is sadness. I mean that life is absolutely full of little pains, and big ones, from losing people you love to being aggravated that your thermostat is hard to use, to not being able to find your keys, to wishing it wasn't raining right now. That's definitely all suffering, in the Buddhist sense. And I don't believe anyone who says they don't suffer.