Buddhism

The Buddha observed the human life as one of complete dissatisfaction or Dukkha.  Dukkha is human suffering.

Like a lot of religions, it starts by telling us that we somehow see that the world is wrong. But how have we seen things wrong? It begins with the overlooking of the fact that the world in a constant state of impermanence, that is to say, nothing is permanent. Humans want permanence though, we want things to stay the same and to not change.

What is reality? It is an unfolding thing that we don’t really realize. We think things permanent to us because of our relevant view of time and how slow things are to us. Things fall apart and come together all the time. Therefore there is nothing really except partials and forces.

There are no “things” there are only particles and forces. This is because everything comes together and breaks apart in time. A cloud at one moment is there and in the next it can be gone. There are only temporary clumping of particles and if we recognize them, then we can give them names.

Buddhism believes there is no God, there is no soil, there is only dust which is you and by eating and living we can sustain our being for a while. We must enter the world of the way things really are. If you hate your roommate, don’t think about how much you hate him for the entire year till June, instead just accept the fact that you don’t like your roommate and go on with your life.

All suffering is self created. We create a sense of bad feeling ourselves.

The world is emptiness or Shunuata. There is no “thing-ness”

1)      Life is suffering

2)      Suffering arises from selfish craving (got to have this and this and this)

3)      Craving can be eliminated (accept whatever happens, don’t despaired if you don’t have  all that you desire)

4)      8 Fold Path (The way to achieve happiness)

Emptiness is the freeing of ourselves from everything. Once we realize that our desires are empty, we become the masters of ourselves.

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