What is the Buddha's notion of suffering?
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"Suffering arises from our attachment to pleasure and our aversion to pain; true wisdom lies in embracing the whole, allowing joy and hurt to flow into one another."
According to Osho, the Buddha’s notion of suffering is not that life is only pain, but that pleasure and pain are inseparable, interchanging facts. Suffering grows from clinging to pleasure and rejecting pain; joy and hurt convert into each other. Wisdom sees the whole, lets go in time, and avoids extremes—dissolving fantasies of pure heaven or hell through a middle, watchful acceptance.
Life isn’t just bad or just good; they mix and change, and we suffer most when we grab the nice stuff or push away the hard stuff.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces stress by loosening clinging to pleasure and resistance to pain.
- Cultivates timely letting-go, keeping joys fresh and pains workable.
- Guides a balanced middle way, avoiding unrealistic highs and lows.
- Cultivates timely letting-go, keeping joys fresh and pains workable.
- Guides a balanced middle way, avoiding unrealistic highs and lows.
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