Originally Posted by
anatta
Another teaching which is misunderstood is ‘life is suffering’, it's actually ‘there is suffering in life’ , because there is lots of joys and happiness also in life but all of that has an inbuilt fleeting feeling inside them and our misguided efforts to achieve them complicates things.
One can find equanimity with the teachings and still live in the world.
Final one is there is suffering due to craving, there is craving due to ignorance but it is not explained where the ignorance comes from, because there is no need. One just works to remove the ignorance.
The human mind seeks answers to everything but actually we can complicate things by overanalyzing and overthinking also.
When we say something is omnipresent or impermanent, it has to be defined against something which is present and permanent for us to understand.
That's why thinking about things like when did world or time start is not encouraged as one will ask ‘what before that', we thus don't know when all this started.
That is why it's said that no one spoke as much as the Buddha but also no one stayed silent as much as the Buddha.
Because he knew which questions not to answer.
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