On suffering

I am heavily inclined to believe that suffering is the main force that drives people to search for spiritual matters.

Note: there are people that do not have the knowledge at all about these matters.

The common sense says that suffering is a natural aspect of life. Nothing to worry about - just numb it with the next distraction/entertainment. However, undeniably, these subject-matters are talking about the possibility of relinquishing suffering for good.

That, for me, is what defines what Zen Masters are talking about implicitly. Although they want to joke about it and be slippery with the words, in the end, it’s just to protect the knowledge from faith/corruption/belief. It’s what makes Zen unique. Once one’s enlightened, it all makes sense.

It’s written on the 4th statement of Zen that one “sees his true nature and becomes enlightened; (attains Buddhahood, etc.)

This obviously implies, even according to traditional buddhism literature, that one does not suffer anymore.

However, even though it is a “pathless path”, there must be something to be done, some practice, some answer, something to help with the burden of life:

because if otherwise, we would not be battling/entangling each other with words and nonsense and stupidity and nihilism, we’d just move on and focus on something else! “fuck Zen!”, we’d say.

I would like to see someone answer this problem at its core and not just dance around with semantics.

Submitted December 17, 2017 at 07:46PM by costabueno1 http://ift.tt/2B3swMv