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> We may have not experienced prolonged pain, but we all have experienced suffering Sure, but people rarely consider suicide due to momentary suffering, or eve
by nicoburns 3y ago
> We may have not experienced prolonged pain, but we all have experienced suffering
Sure, but people rarely consider suicide due to momentary suffering, or even suffering for a few weeks or month. People typically consider suicide when they can't see an end to their suffering, and while this is sometimes irrational there are also many cases where it isn't.
- zozbot234 3y agoI've already pointed out that suffering is inherent to life for most of us, so it encompasses far more than "a few weeks or month[s]". You seem to be focusing on the aversion of physical or spiritual pain, but that's merely one sort of suffering which is not different in nature from the far subtler and less obvious suffering we all experience throughout our lives.
- vaidhy 3y agoThere is suffering and there is suffering. Even Buddha differentiated between the physical needs and the spiritual pain. We now know there is also mental pain and it is disingenuous to categorize all of them into a single category.
- imtringued 3y agoOk, good that I don't have to care about this type of suffering then.
- zozbot234 3y agoWhat if I told you that you don't have to care about any kind of suffering, other than perhaps some very rare extremes of physical pain. That's the point!