Posted by DeDukshyn (here)
Seems pretty close to the western definition ... Am I some sort of weird anomaly, that looks at things in life that others see as tragedy and only see's "life's events" without a strong emotional reaction? Am I a psychopath? Is the alleviation of suffering requiring the psychopathic mindset? I dunno ... I don't think I'm a psychopath, I do have strong emotions, but I feel I do not "suffer" as is keeping to be explained to me ... did Jesus suffer? Not that I am Christian .. I am not ... just trying to figure all this out ...Posted by Mike (here)
https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddh...-by-suffering/
This is a good start maybe.
I hope Mashika can give me perhaps a better definition of suffering that jibes with my experience? Or am I the freak here? (for the record I am ok with being the "freak" ... I just am navigating the world as I see it with the world as everyone else sees it, as that is what reality is made of - my reality and everyone else's reality = reality, no one's is better than any others)Yes i can, everything but what you have experienced so farI hope Mashika can give me perhaps a better definition of suffering that jibes with my experience? Or am I the freak here?
That's the exact point of it all, you were unable to see the world for what it is because you right now try to explain to me a culture/religion that came late into your life and you expect to know more than someone who was born and raised into it
Let me explain it other way. If you are 40 years old or whatever, and then comes someone who is 24 years old. And you just learned about eastern culture and found it cool and interesting and learned from whoever/books/movies and such, and then comes the 24 year old that grew on it and knows the raw version of it (without the nice things added so it's more attractive to westerners). Do you think you have more experience than the 24 year old, because you are older?
Do do think that maybe, since the 24 did not know or had to rebuild her mind to find out what the eastern culture means, has an advantage over you? Have you thrown away yet, all you assumed, or did you just picked up the latest version of the culture and re-interpreted it once more?
Think, please
This is a pointless argument.. like i said "You may be right, but.."
Sometimes, it does get very tiring when i get my own culture explained to me
I had already pointed to you, on other thread, about "suffering" and yet you skipped over my links and replied with a bunch of nonsense, and kept going, you did not took a look at the link i posted, and i know that because you kept ignoring and not addressing anything i said, yet you come again and try to impose a view about eastern culture concepts that you don't understand
Just don't
Spend a year, or 10, like already said several times, and then come back with real stuff, you just keep cycling over the same tired explanation that doesn't mean much if you don't accept that you have to throw away your pre-conceived notions. Like i said already way too many times
So, in the end
"It is your own path" and i can't change it.. "Unless you ask"
We went full cycle here, once again.............
ETA:Why do you have to keep fighting back? I asked you to look more into it, it takes months, years, decades, a life! To get to it, spend your time more wisely and do that, arguing with me here when you don't understand what Buddhism really is but still try to hold your views on it is ridiculous.
Spend.The.Time.Learning it already
Or not! It's up to you, no one is forcing you, but if you want to reference Buddhist concepts, please at least spend more time learning what it really means
What more is there to say?
We were not even about this, yes. I was just trying to express how i get around my bad days in hope other people would find a way out in the same way i do, and hopefully make them feel good, and now you are bringing the monster out, why?