06-24-2010, 12:01 AM
"No! The cause of suffering is ignorance..... which leads to grasping at existence (trying to substantiate it and confirm as something more substantial than appearance), which is the "suffering". Dependent origination ends this ignorance and the craving for existing and the impulsion towards it cease. That is the relief!"
"trying to substantiate and confirm something is more substantial than appearance"...hm, isnt that what is being done here? In this forum? Trying to confirm that life is more than it appears to be? More spiritual, more "substantial" somehow? More dramatic, beefy, calm, peaceful, loving than it appears to be? Therefore, isnt everyone here really suffering by that definition?
"trying to substantiate and confirm something is more substantial than appearance"...hm, isnt that what is being done here? In this forum? Trying to confirm that life is more than it appears to be? More spiritual, more "substantial" somehow? More dramatic, beefy, calm, peaceful, loving than it appears to be? Therefore, isnt everyone here really suffering by that definition?