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**deermealec** · 06-12-2010, 11:19 PM

is just as relevent today.

Yes, and much more relevant today than ever. Modern world or, more precisely, postmodernism is caracterized by a high level of hedonism or the pursuit of fast and inmediate pleasure. This gives people a high level of suffering masked as pleasure.

Suffering is not inherent at anything. It is just a result of mental delusion and this is timeless to any civilization. If suffering is not being overcome, and the only who knows about is oneself, shurly we are moving away from what Buddha taught, independently of "modern" or "ancient" worlds frame of reference.

06-12-2010, 11:19 PM	#6
deermealec Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	is just as relevent today. Yes, and much more relevant today than ever. Modern world or, more precisely, postmodernism is caracterized by a high level of hedonism or the pursuit of fast and inmediate pleasure. This gives people a high level of suffering masked as pleasure. Suffering is not inherent at anything. It is just a result of mental delusion and this is timeless to any civilization. If suffering is not being overcome, and the only who knows about is oneself, shurly we are moving away from what Buddha taught, independently of "modern" or "ancient" worlds frame of reference.
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