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On Suffering

by takuin on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 · 12 comments

November Project: Question #29

This question comes from a good friend through email

I have asked the same questions over and over. I don’t think I care as much for ‘enlightenment’ as for end of suffering. I have heard there is light at the end of tunnel. What if the tunnel is lifelong? What does one do if one feels like a tiny little lost being so panicked by life that the cosmos feels like an alien, uncaring thing?

I think you’ve done this long enough to know any answer given by an outside authority will do nothing for you.

How many times have you asked these questions? To how many different people? What have their answers done for you?

You’ve listened to those people, and at the time I am sure their answers were reasonable to you. Do this, do that. Avoid this, avoid that. And you have done those things. Yet, still here you are with the same questions, the same wants, the same suffering. [click to continue…]

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