SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoEvading suffering is itself a form of sufferingmessage-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down15
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareEvading suffering is itself a form of sufferingSubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareAcamon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 days agoIsn’t that the basic Buddhist / stoic idea? Avoiding suffering entirely isn’t possible, and obsessing about evading it is itself a heavy burden, instead choose to accept and be at peace with the suffering that is beyond your control.
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoI don’t believe that “be[ing] at peace with suffering” is core to Buddhism. The ending of suffering is.
Isn’t that the basic Buddhist / stoic idea? Avoiding suffering entirely isn’t possible, and obsessing about evading it is itself a heavy burden, instead choose to accept and be at peace with the suffering that is beyond your control.
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I don’t believe that “be[ing] at peace with suffering” is core to Buddhism. The ending of suffering is.