#Dukkha arises with grasping. This implies that suffering develops over childhood

#Buddhism

Tee Hee! :blobcatfluffpats: :hearthands: :ablobwave:
There I woz tick/talking to a giggle of virtual witches/dakini/daka and other assorted #Alternatives … about
#How I loved silence. Just at that moment on cue the devil of noise arrived in the form of scaffolding in next doors urban terrace. :blobcatwhat: :blobDab:
So is noise #Dukkha or #Sukha?

May have to play #Binaural beats, musac, ambient lift musick or Moo sounds of Whale Cows 🦞 ⚡️ 🪄 🎧️ 🛐 🔱

:elmo_fire: :comfymelt: :blobcatspace:

Dear Virtual Friends 🫂

sugar = bad 4 U unless person
#Sukha = not #Dukkha, opposite of
suffering/unease in Buddhist Dharma,

yep #Sukha is the sweet stuff
https://tricycle.org/magazine/pleasure-and-pain/

Have you heard that 'samsara is nirvana'?
Well now you have and it is …

Find Joy if you can,
dance until you drop to bits
as well we might and all do …
:blobcatthink: :elmo_fire: :space: :hearthands: :ablobwave: :blobthanks:

@markcooper Thanks for the link. Interesting book, but from a quick skim I think equating 'suffering' to pain is far too narrow if not misleading. According to the Dalai Lama and others, a better definition of #dukkha is *unsatisfactoriness*
#Buddhism

#Attachment #Dukkha #Buddhism #Buddhist #OKGo

https://youtu.be/MejbOFk7H6c

Morning meditation — One thing I Teach.

‘One thing I teach, Dukkha and release from Dukkha.’
The Buddha

https://buddhismnow.com/2023/01/03/morning-meditation-one-thing-i-teach/

#Dukkha #Buddha #Buddhism

#bdg feature: Ripples in the Pond

How Buddhists can learn from advances in organizational development to remain relevant in a volatile world

Read more: [https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/ripples-in-the-pond/](https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/ripples-in-the-pond/)

#dukkha #chaplaincy #EngagedBuddhism #future #management #organizationaldevelopment #wisdom #sangha #dharma #Networks #spiritualcare

New Year's Resolution #1: Have a sit every day even if it's literally just for 10 minutes. Settle the mind and tune into awareness and drop the ceaseless storylines going through my awareness. Not necessarily looking for enlightenment here. Just trying to dial down the #dukkha a bit. #Meditation (Prediction: I will top out at 80% of days.)

Enough really is enough, yet we always want more. So we experience dukkha - things being unsatisfactory.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/swedish-philosophy-lagom-just-enough/

#Enough #Dukkha #Lagom

Everyday Buddhist: ‘One thing I teach, dukkha and release from dukkha.'
The Buddha

#Buddhist #Dukkha #Buddha #Buddhism

The #Buddha said we should treat praise & condemnation with #equanimity, as winds that blow first this way, then that--neither permanent, neither self. I am in danger of being dropped because my #DWFI rates are so abysmal--my Ws are killing me--& have been orienting my mind & my life toward no longer #teaching after this next term. Then I open my email this morning & find I've been nominated by a couple of my students for a teaching award.

#Adjunct life.

#anicca #dukkha #anatta

The #Buddha said we should treat praise & condemnation with #equanimity, as winds that blow first this way, then that--neither permanent, neither self. I am in danger of being dropped because my #DWFI rates are so abysmal--my Ws are killing me--& have been orienting my mind & my life toward no longer #teaching after this next term. Then I open my email this morning & find I've been nominated by a couple of my students for a teaching award.

#Adjunct life.

#anicca #dukkha #anatta

I got a little bit of rare sympathetic joy and would like to share it with anyone suffering from climate anxiety, or just anyone alive #poetry #perastika #printmaking #drawing #dukkha #mudita #climateaction

Jeder kennt das Phänomen: Man will einschlafen, kann es aber nicht, weil das #Denken einfach nicht aufhören will. Nur Wenige scheinen das tieferliegende Problem zu ergründen: Wenn #ICH schlafen will - also nicht denken will - WER oder was denkt dann eigentlich gegen meinen Willen? - Offensichtlich nicht ICH. Wenn ICH nun nicht MEIN Denken bin oder das Denken Teil von Mir ... 😵

#Autopoiesis #Schlaf #Identität #anatta #dukkha #Descartes

I read Jack Kornfield’s "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry", some accounts from meditators telling their experiences.

It made me realize one can describe an #enlightenment experience with the most inspiring words, and still be very much the subject of #dukkha and #karma.

Now, the real question is how much of the words of the masters are the same? Are we fantasizing their experience of enlightenment? Why would it be more important than a modern telling of the same kind?

#buddhism #meditation

My favourite quote from my favourite nonfiction book:

"There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn't one piece that isn't our own creation."

—Zen Baggage by Bill Porter a.k.a. Red Pine

#zen #buddhism #BillPorter #RedPine #dukkha #samsara

Samhain Dreams
https://greumstevenson.me/posts/10-31-22%20Samhain%20Dreams.html

#samhain #halloween #dreams #samsara #dukkha #ghosts

Andre Malraux asked a priest: "You've spent 50 years listening to people in the secrecy of the confessional. What have you learned about the human soul?"

The priest answered: "Two things. First of all, people are much more unhappy than one thinks. And second, there is no such thing as grown-ups."

#samsara #dukkha #suffering #happiness