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Keeping in line with the style of that comment: No, they're not.
by attemptone 3y ago
Keeping in line with the style of that comment:
No, they're not.
- Fricken 3y agoLife is suffering. It's one of the 4 Noble truths of Buddhism. Ancient knowledge.
- jebarker 3y agoThat's not knowledge and they're truths only in name, it's philosophy.
- Fricken 3y agoCasual observation bears out the same truths. What living thing doesn't suffer?
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- jebarker 3y agoI haven't experienced the consciousness of all living things, so I can't make blanket statements.
- downvotetruth 3y agohttps://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/channelopathy-associated-congenital-insensitivity-to-pain/ https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/channelopathy-ass...
- brazzy 3y agoNearly all living things do not suffer constantly, which disproves your original statement.
- lawn 3y agoAncient belief, not "knowledge" or "truth".
- jdietrich 3y agoThe first noble truth posits that dukkha (suffering) is a characteristic of existence in the realm of rebirth. The second, third and fourth noble truths posit that escape from dukkha (and therefore escape from the cycle of death and rebirth) is possible. "Life is suffering" is a shallow misinterpretation of Buddhist theology; Buddhists believe that all suffering has an identifiable cause and a known remedy.
- Fricken 3y agoAll the big religions offer up some sort of escape plan as part of the sales pitch. I don't believe one can avoid suffering. You can however choose your suffering. You can suffer in the service of something greater. Or you can suffer meaninglessly, but you'll suffer one way or the other.
- bowsamic 3y agoJust because the Buddha said it, doesn't mean it's right. My life is many things as well as suffering. It is no more suffering than it is joy or peace. Why emphasise suffering specifically?
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- attemptone 3y agoAnother mystical text calls life the ultimate rohrschach test. You're not making (logical) arguments but rather you're showing your hand.
- vaidhy 3y agoThat is a misreading of what was said. Others have commented on it before. Life is unsatisfactory is closer to what Buddha said. He took great pains to separate physical needs from spiritual suffering. His eight fold path as a way to achieve nirvana is a solution for one of those problems. It does not put food on the table.