Suffering.

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Namaste,

 

Why is there suffering? This is because of misreading the situation.

If we give some validity to the world, which I as a follower of

Ajativada do not, there appears to be suffering. This suffering is

caused by attachment. It is the belief that the combination of

aggregates is a person or a thing in itself. It is this sense of

individuality that causes pain. As Sankara said--Death is separation

from our desires/attachments. If one feels 'all is one', truly, then

when one's dog dies or a person, nothing has actually happened but a

rearrangment of the aggregates. Does the ocean worry about a wave

cresting out of existence and back into the ocean?

 

It this entanglement that causes suffering. For are the molecules and

atoms of a dying person suffering? No of course not. So it is the

aggregates and the false perception of same that it the root of the

suffering. In the end it is attachment that causes

pain.......ONS..Tony.