but to try and sum it up in a nutshell, nothing matters. Nothing is worth doing or getting. Suffering exists. Good deeds beget good suffering and bad deeds beget bad suffering. So if you're a good person always sacrificing yourself for the sake of others, you suffer. So instead of being a good person for a while, just try to realize the truth of things, let go of desire, and your suffering will end. If there is a reason for people to live, it's simply because you're currently living, and living things continue living until they're dead. Purpose in life is an attachment, a desire, and thus another cause of suffering. Anyway, hope this gives you something to think about and again, I recommend the above texts. Eventually you realize that you don't have to suffer, and life can be really enjoyable and interesting, but only if you're OK with how things are.
That often hard-to-get guy, Nickraus a.k.a. PikaMasterChu
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/4nobltru.pdf
and
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/fundbud1.pdf
but to try and sum it up in a nutshell, nothing matters. Nothing is worth doing or getting. Suffering exists. Good deeds beget good suffering and bad deeds beget bad suffering. So if you're a good person always sacrificing yourself for the sake of others, you suffer. So instead of being a good person for a while, just try to realize the truth of things, let go of desire, and your suffering will end. If there is a reason for people to live, it's simply because you're currently living, and living things continue living until they're dead. Purpose in life is an attachment, a desire, and thus another cause of suffering. Anyway, hope this gives you something to think about and again, I recommend the above texts. Eventually you realize that you don't have to suffer, and life can be really enjoyable and interesting, but only if you're OK with how things are.
That often hard-to-get guy,
Nickraus
a.k.a. PikaMasterChu
Reply
Leave a comment