QotD: the Diamond Truth

[liveonearth]

The best doctor of all the doctors, the best medicine of medicines, and the best technology of technologies cannot save you from your life. The best consultants, the best bank loans, and the best insurance policies cannot save you. Technology, financial help, your smartness or good thinking of any kind - none will save you. That may seem like

Comments

[calizen]

An interesting quote. But I would like to know -- westerner that I am -- what all this cannot save us from? Death? Disappointment? Tragedy?

I have mixed feelings with this because perhaps blithering and happy denial is what keeps us going in spite of the fact that we know, maybe on a denied basis, that it's all going to end.

blithering and happy denial

[liveonearth]

I suppose that is the Buddha's point, that this enjoyable diversion from the truth does not prevent us from experiencing the hard parts; birth, suffering, and death.

[quayme]

"huh"