The truth of suffering stat es that suffering is an intrinsic part of life, and it diagnoses the human condition as fundamentally one of ‘dis-ease.’ …neither pessimistic nor optimistic, the truth is suffering simply presents the facts of life in an objective way and is, therefore, extremely hard to grasp. in short, the five factors of individuality are suffering. association with what is unpleasant is suffering, disassociation from what is pleasant is suffering.
pain, grief, sorrow, lamentation, and despair are suffering. What, o monks, is the noble truth of suffering? birth is suffering, sickness is suffering, old age is suffering, death is suffering. The buddha diagnoses the illness in the first noble truth: “how great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by times of fulfillment that sorrow can be followed by joy that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements … and into dreams that we can make come true!” These have the same source, but different names.ĪDDISS, STEPHEN & LOMBARDO, STANLEY (1993)įred rogers provides a kid-friendly version of impermanence: Naming: the mother of ten thousand things.įilled with desire, perceive manifestations. Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth. Lao-tzu’s opening to the tao te ching points toward uncertainty, flexibility, relationship, authenticity, strainlessness: the remarkable thing is that now i have unlimited time for myself!” when i help joey with his homework, i try to find ways of seeing his time as my own time… sharing his presence and finding ways to be interested in what we do during that time.
i consider my time with joey and sue my own time. the time left over i considered my own… but now i try not to divide time into parts anymore. one part i reserved for joey, another part was for sue, another part to help with ana, another part for household work. in the past, i used to look at my time as if it were divided into several parts. Then allen said, “i’ve discovered a way to have a lot more time. Thich nhat hahn’s parable about connection, presence, patience: the teacher asked, “what happened?” the student replied, “i cou ldn’t find a place to kill the chicken where no one could see. The second disciple was gone a very long time and finally returned with the chicken still alive. the first disciple was back very quickly, and had taken the chicken behind a barn and killed it. Tara brach on how our creation of social hierarchies impedes our ability to have compassion:Ī teacher gave two disciples each a chicken and an axe and told them to go someplace where no one could see and kill the chicken. Humanist Lent 2019, 40 Days of Mindfullness
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