Tag: suffering

To give up suffering

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Submitted by Omkaradatta on Sat, 11/29/2008 - 19:39.
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No one else can feel your pain -- in that, you are alone. But everyone else can feel your joy, everyone can share your peace. To give up suffering is not to become inhuman, but to join the human race.

— Omkaradatta



If resistance is the cause of suffering then why were given it as an instinctive reaction tool?

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Submitted by nancy prophet on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 07:05.
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People are asking me: if resistance to pain is the cause of our suffering then how come it evolved to be our natural reaction, our basic instinct, when we encounter pain?