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"Good" is subjective. However, pain and suffering are avoidable, death is not. Seeing death as an enemy might end up making you suffer a lot.
by ta1234567890 6y ago
"Good" is subjective. However, pain and suffering are avoidable, death is not.
Seeing death as an enemy might end up making you suffer a lot.
- copperx 6y agoPain and suffering are avoidable? What kind of fantasy world do you live in?
- ta1234567890 6y agoThe world where Buddhism and hundreds of related practices have existed for thousands of years, which allow anyone (who puts in the work), to detach themselves from suffering. In a more western-mainstream note, we also have therapy, pain killers and anti-depressants, all tools that allow us to avoid pain and suffering. Maybe not forever, but definitely at least temporarily. Which of the above do you consider fantasies?
- angrais 6y agoWhy would you detach from suffering? Suffering is life. Like love, bitterness, and joy. They are how we feel, and if we detach from any then others follow.
- ta1234567890 6y ago> Why would you detach from suffering? To not have to suffer. The goal of Buddha was to end "suffering". What he found was that the/one way to do that is to become aware of feelings/emotions/sensations, to the point where we don't spontaneously react to them, but instead can consciously choose how to act when we encounter them. How you do that is by first fostering awareness and then by detaching yourself from your own reaction patterns. The idea is not to desensitize yourself, you still very much feel everything, but you can then choose what you do afterwards. Which means you still feel pain, love, bitterness and joy, but you don't need to suffer. Why would you want to suffer?
- rhencke 6y agoThích Nhất Hạnh [1] once said: - Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%B...
- wizzwizz4 6y agoAnd it might let us push death back another century – or longer. I'd be willing to walk through fire for that. In the unlikely event the Second Law of Thermodynamics doesn't hold, then we can end death.
- Der_Einzige 6y agoHell, it's possible even if the second law holds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
- wizzwizz4 6y agoThat's not ending death; the heat death of the universe will come eventually if the Second Law holds.