Think I Know the Source of My Tinnitus

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A Buddhist legend related in the Samyutta Nikaya is of a King who has asked the Buddha, "Is anyone who is born, free from aging and death?", the Buddha replied:



You've basically got two choices: accept your life and try to make it as rich and comfortable as it can possibly be within the constraints the universe has laid out for you, or refuse to accept and make yourself increasingly miserable in the struggle.

There's no magic here. That's what it is. This is your life, right here, right now, in this space and time.

How is your support network? Do you have people in your life who listen to you? Do you have people who will tell you "I love you just as you are" on a regular basis?

Hate to say but I think you give Buddhism way too much credit. It's a good religion sure; better than almost every western religion (If not every) but it's got a lot of flaws. Like Christianity it has a lot of woo. Most of what the west is exposed to of buddhism is it's best virtues, and not exposed to the retarded claims it makes. Better stoic philosophyies would be the stoics or epicureus.

I'm just saying there's a reason I left.

 

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Hate to say but I think you give Buddhism way too much credit. It's a good religion sure; better than almost every western religion (If not every) but it's got a lot of flaws.

I'm not theological, nor was my intent to be -- I believe that singular quote, ripped of its context, is a tautology about the nature of human existence and suffering.

Seneca and Sakyong Mipham are both on my reading list lately