Guest guest Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 ......These four facts of life are meant to be known, understood, and realized, seen as they are. Knowing the bare fact that things are dissatisfying won't free us from dissatisfaction. The crucial part is knowing the Second Noble Truth, which is the cause of that dissatisfaction — not the things themselves, since the things themselves don't suffer; it is we who suffer. The cause of that suffering is clinging, attachment, greed, desire, resistance, fixation — whatever you want to call it. It is often called craving. The word literally is tanha in Pali (samudaya in Sanskrit), which suggests thirst. Because we crave, continually desire and thirst for various experiences and things, and because created things are never ultimately satisfying, we suffer. That's where the chain of suffering can be addressed: whether or not we cling to things and crave for experience. It's not that we have to get rid of the things themselves. Things are not the problem. It is the attachment, the identification with things that causes suffering. Tilopa wrote, " It is not outer objects which entangle us. It is inner clinging which entangles us. " http://www.Dzogchen.org/teachings/talks/ndt06.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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