The Truth of the First Noble Truth

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brendan wrote:Buddhas are said to also be beyond doctors.
A funny comparison. Yes they are, but they don´t talk about a disease. They talk about existence and happiness within it.

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Transcendental Wisdom ... Through the power of the Buddha, the venerable Shariputra approached the ...

EDIT Need to spin this off into second thread for the Second Turning of The Wheel

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brendan wrote:
Malcolm wrote:
brendan wrote:
Malcolm, this is your quote "All benefit that comes to us is the blessings of the Buddhas".
Yes, because the buddhas only wish the best for sentient beings, it is therefore any benefit that befalls them is a blessing of the buddhas.
This is also a quote, "Yes, and there is nothing Buddhas can do about that"...So how can there even be a cognition of a wish?
There may be nothing Buddhas can do to intervene when sentient beings are blindly acting out of affliction and cause themselves needless injury, nevertheless, even though samsara is a terrible place, it is still possible to generate roots of virtue. All positive things that sentient beings do generate such roots, and the Buddhas teach only virtue, therefore, all positive things that happen to sentient beings are a blessing of the Buddhas because the Buddhas bless all roots of virtue as such. Every teaching, every word, which encourages sentient beings to generate virtue is the word of the Buddha, and it does not matter in which religion or secular philosophy it is found — all of them are the teaching of the Buddha, the ultimate root of such teachings come out of the very basis which gives rise to Buddhahood itself, cultivating the root of virtue and generating compassion for sentient beings. Buddhas have limitless compassion so of course they automatically "wish" the benefit of sentient beings.

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@Malcolm

The claim is that Buddha's are omniscient....so there for they are aware of _any illness_ for _any_ sentient being (Buddhist or non- Buddhist)......and they have the medication for any of these illnesses....?
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brendan wrote:@Malcolm

The claim is that Buddha's are omniscient....so there for they are aware of _any illness_ for _any_ sentient being (Buddhist or non- Buddhist)......and they have the medication for any of these illnesses....?
This has already been answered. Go back and contemplate the answers rather than just reacting to them.
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Sherab Dorje wrote:
brendan wrote:@Malcolm

The claim is that Buddha's are omniscient....so there for they are aware of _any illness_ for _any_ sentient being (Buddhist or non- Buddhist)......and they have the medication for any of these illnesses....?
This has already been answered. Go back and contemplate the answers rather than just reacting to them.

Yer I know...the medication is only enjoyed by the sentient being if the requirements are meet.
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brendan wrote:
Sherab Dorje wrote:
brendan wrote:@Malcolm

The claim is that Buddha's are omniscient....so there for they are aware of _any illness_ for _any_ sentient being (Buddhist or non- Buddhist)......and they have the medication for any of these illnesses....?
This has already been answered. Go back and contemplate the answers rather than just reacting to them.

Yer I know...the medication is only enjoyed by the sentient being if the requirements are meet.
Definitely you do not contemplate the words used ... it's just that you know.

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brendan wrote:Yer I know...the medication is only enjoyed by the sentient being if the requirements are meet.
So why you asking the same question repeatedly?
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Sherab Dorje wrote:
brendan wrote:Yer I know...the medication is only enjoyed by the sentient being if the requirements are meet.
So why you asking the same question repeatedly?

Question hiding in statement?
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brendan wrote:
Sherab Dorje wrote:
brendan wrote:Yer I know...the medication is only enjoyed by the sentient being if the requirements are meet.
So why you asking the same question repeatedly?

Question hiding in statement?
Cryptic nonsense doesn't really count as an intelligent reply.
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Think Sherab's got a point here.
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brendan wrote:@Malcolm

The claim is that Buddha's are omniscient....so there for they are aware of _any illness_ for _any_ sentient being (Buddhist or non- Buddhist)......and they have the medication for any of these illnesses....?

Right. What is your question?
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So just to clarify my own thinking with regards to the three types of Dukkha

1) Dukkha Dukkha - This would be the suffering cuased by pain, such as 'ouch i just stubbed my toe'

2) Viparinama Dukkha - This is the suffering of change due to all things being impermenant, as such even if something is giving us pleasure now, such as being in a relationship, then this will ultimatly end up as suffering like when the relationship ends

3) Sankhara Dukkha - The suffering all condition phenomona. This is due to the very nature of 'things' as being part of conditioined phonmena. So even though this really tasty food gives me pleasure now, becuase of the impermenane inherent in the food, it is not a lasting pleasure, and as such wil only result in suffering once the taste goes due to my craving the food.

so how far of the mark am I? I get the feeling im possibly getting Viparinama and Sankhara dukkha slightly confused, but not sure where the confusion lies. They both seem very similer to me, in the sense that its due to the impermenane of things that cuase the suffering (due to the attachment/craving to things).
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Pringle wrote:So just to clarify my own thinking with regards to the three types of Dukkha

1) Dukkha Dukkha - This would be the suffering cuased by pain, such as 'ouch i just stubbed my toe'

2) Viparinama Dukkha - This is the suffering of change due to all things being impermenant, as such even if something is giving us pleasure now, such as being in a relationship, then this will ultimatly end up as suffering like when the relationship ends

3) Sankhara Dukkha - The suffering all condition phenomona. This is due to the very nature of 'things' as being part of conditioined phonmena. So even though this really tasty food gives me pleasure now, becuase of the impermenane inherent in the food, it is not a lasting pleasure, and as such wil only result in suffering once the taste goes due to my craving the food.

so how far of the mark am I? I get the feeling im possibly getting Viparinama and Sankhara dukkha slightly confused, but not sure where the confusion lies. They both seem very similer to me, in the sense that its due to the impermenane of things that cuase the suffering (due to the attachment/craving to things).
Yes, you are getting these two confused. The third is the fact that things just fall apart and so therefore cannot be considered a source of happiness.
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Malcolm wrote:
Pringle wrote:So just to clarify my own thinking with regards to the three types of Dukkha

1) Dukkha Dukkha - This would be the suffering cuased by pain, such as 'ouch i just stubbed my toe'

2) Viparinama Dukkha - This is the suffering of change due to all things being impermenant, as such even if something is giving us pleasure now, such as being in a relationship, then this will ultimatly end up as suffering like when the relationship ends

3) Sankhara Dukkha - The suffering all condition phenomona. This is due to the very nature of 'things' as being part of conditioined phonmena. So even though this really tasty food gives me pleasure now, becuase of the impermenane inherent in the food, it is not a lasting pleasure, and as such wil only result in suffering once the taste goes due to my craving the food.

so how far of the mark am I? I get the feeling im possibly getting Viparinama and Sankhara dukkha slightly confused, but not sure where the confusion lies. They both seem very similer to me, in the sense that its due to the impermenane of things that cuase the suffering (due to the attachment/craving to things).
Yes, you are getting these two confused. The third is the fact that things just fall apart and so therefore cannot be considered a source of happiness.
So it's the fact that becuase all things are just as set of conditions, their is nothing inherent in them that can gives us any true satisfaction? Like saying 'paying a rubix Cube want give real satisfaction but there is no actual inherent rubix cue within it, it's just a set of conditions that give a suchness of a rubix cube'..............That any better or still of the mark?
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Pringle wrote:So just to clarify my own thinking with regards to the three types of Dukkha

1) Dukkha Dukkha - This would be the suffering cuased by pain, such as 'ouch i just stubbed my toe'

2) Viparinama Dukkha - This is the suffering of change due to all things being impermenant, as such even if something is giving us pleasure now, such as being in a relationship, then this will ultimatly end up as suffering like when the relationship ends

3) Sankhara Dukkha - The suffering all condition phenomona. This is due to the very nature of 'things' as being part of conditioined phonmena. So even though this really tasty food gives me pleasure now, becuase of the impermenane inherent in the food, it is not a lasting pleasure, and as such wil only result in suffering once the taste goes due to my craving the food.

so how far of the mark am I? I get the feeling im possibly getting Viparinama and Sankhara dukkha slightly confused, but not sure where the confusion lies. They both seem very similer to me, in the sense that its due to the impermenane of things that cuase the suffering (due to the attachment/craving to things).
They can be hard to distinguish for sure. Sankhara dukkha is a tricky term to understand partly just because the word dukkha doesn't even really mean suffering in this context but something more like unsatisfying. Sankhara dukkha means that because something is formed from causes and conditions, it cannot bring a true satisfaction even in the present. Conditioned things can bring a type of satisfaction, but such a satisfaction is bound to be somewhat superficial. To use the example of food, the sankhara dukkha of the food is that even when you are eating and enjoying it, it doesn't give a full satisfaction for your desire to be happy, but only a partial one. Even if you could make your experience of eating that food last forever it still couldn't bring you to a full happiness.

The only thing free of Sankhara Dukkha is Nirvana itself, because it is unconditioned. Nirvana alone gives a happiness that is complete.
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Bakmoon wrote:
Pringle wrote:Nirvana alone gives a happiness that is complete.
Yes but remember the Mahayana.

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If all your mothers, who love you,
Suffer for time without beginning, how can you be happy?
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I thing i'm starting to get the picture, but these two Articles I have read have also made me a little confused, as they both seem to state sankhara Dukkha as something more to do with our violitional tendecies and our mental formations when we encounter suffering.

http://www.lionsroar.com/deep-dukkha-pa ... suffering/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practi ... -suffering" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As said these seem to relate more to the stories we make in our head about something being painful, rather then an expiereience or thing itself just being a cuase of pain.

"Returning to the examples I used earlier, I broke my ankle and it hurt. When I could mindfully acknowledge the unpleasantness of the pain, dukkha dukkha did not arise. It arose only when I reacted with aversion to this circumstance of my life (craving for the pain to stop). And then, sankhara dukkha was not far behind. “It’s not fair that I broke my ankle.” “What if it doesn’t heal correctly?” “I can’t bear being sick and injured at the same time.” Sankhara dukkha was in the anxiety-filled stories I would spin about my ankle." (quote form one of the articles)

In the above example it makes Sankhara seem more more of a mental type of suffering we induce on ourselves, rather than this all pervading Dukkha all all conditioned things that others seems to be sayign as a definition.

And so now I feel even more confused than i did to begin with. Is it that the 2 articles wrong in the explanation of Snahara, or does Sankhara Dukkha jsut mean more than what a one line definition can give?
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Pringle wrote:I thing i'm starting to get the picture, but these two Articles I have read have also made me a little confused, as they both seem to state sankhara Dukkha as something more to do with our violitional tendecies and our mental formations when we encounter suffering.

http://www.lionsroar.com/deep-dukkha-pa ... suffering/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practi ... -suffering" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As said these seem to relate more to the stories we make in our head about something being painful, rather then an expiereience or thing itself just being a cuase of pain.

"Returning to the examples I used earlier, I broke my ankle and it hurt. When I could mindfully acknowledge the unpleasantness of the pain, dukkha dukkha did not arise. It arose only when I reacted with aversion to this circumstance of my life (craving for the pain to stop). And then, sankhara dukkha was not far behind. “It’s not fair that I broke my ankle.” “What if it doesn’t heal correctly?” “I can’t bear being sick and injured at the same time.” Sankhara dukkha was in the anxiety-filled stories I would spin about my ankle." (quote form one of the articles)

In the above example it makes Sankhara seem more more of a mental type of suffering we induce on ourselves, rather than this all pervading Dukkha all all conditioned things that others seems to be sayign as a definition.

And so now I feel even more confused than i did to begin with. Is it that the 2 articles wrong in the explanation of Snahara, or does Sankhara Dukkha jsut mean more than what a one line definition can give?
Attitude.

EDIT One word antidote you could ponder.
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lorem wrote: Attitude.

EDIT One word antidote you could ponder.
erm.....sorry butI don't get it.

Do you mean it comes down to the Attitude the person translating the meaning takes, as such it is something that could have quite a lot of meaning depending on who you ask or that my attitude in looking at it is wrong?
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