Wanting to be there, or not be there, is suffering

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Another way to say this, to paraphrase the Buddha:

 

As long as you want to be there, you are suffering.

As long as you don't want to be there, you are suffering.

 

When there is not a there to be in or not to be in,

suffering is not.

 

The question of someone or some fact being there,

or being not, or being somewhere else, evaporates.

 

You are free to be here, it's just that you don't

require a " there " in which to be.

 

Someone can kick me in the shins and I can yell,

and there's not a concept of a me who

is being there to yell, or who would

try to get out of being kicked in the shins.

 

I can run away from the person who is kicking,

but in that running, there is not an attempt

not to be there, or to be somewhere else.

 

 

 

 

Realization, " dan330033 " <dan330033> wrote:

> " There " is there when I know it to be there.

> As long as " there " is there, I can be there,

> to know.

>

> So, how can there be a fact, when the fact

> can only be there, when there is there?

>

> -- Dan

>

Realization, " daveoshana " <daveoshana> wrote:

> > Hi Dan

> >

> > In this poem which you sent:

> > What is the fact? Or wasn't there one to start with?

> >

> > dave

> > Enlightenment for All

> > http://oshana.org/

> >

> >

> > Realization, " dan330033 " <dan330033> wrote:

> > > That there is there

> > > isn't a fact.

> > >

> > > The fact isn't that there is there,

> > > nor is it what is there.

> > >

> > > The fact isn't what it was taken to be,

> > > nor is it something else, or some

> > > other way.