From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 01:23:54 MDT
At 03:08 PM 7/20/02 +0800, Chen Yixiong, Eric wrote:
>Once, while on the subway, I thought deeply about life and suffering.
Then, all of a sudden, I realised why we should remove our disires. We pay
the price with the immense dissatisfaction we constantly receive, a form of
suffering, from our disiring to acquire certain things and yet our apparent
inability to fulfil them. When I can sense the suffering from my past
thinking clearly, then I can realise innately why I should live with
minimal disires and attachment.
That's precisely the insight attained by the Buddha under his tree, as I
understand it.
Damien Broderick
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