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**enencephoth** · 10-12-2010, 04:52 PM

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There was one time when somebody told me I was angry, and I denied it; actually I was angry, and I didn't even know - I couldn't admit it to myself. But it's only in admitting these things to ourselves that we can resolve them. reminded me of when some people complain that the 1st NT, dukkha, is pessimistic and that the Buddha and Buddhists are just whining about their lives. When I say that we can observe some degree of unsatisfactoriness in every life, many respond with something like, "Well, I'm happy!"

They often go on to declare very stubbornly that they're happy with their life. However, I know that within 5 minutes of the end of the conversation, they'll be complaining about their job or their spouse or the government or society or something.

People are attached to their ideas and will often defend them when evidence to the contrary is as plain as the sun in the sky. We're a funny lot, aren't we?

10-12-2010, 04:52 PM	#2
enencephoth Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	This part: There was one time when somebody told me I was angry, and I denied it; actually I was angry, and I didn't even know - I couldn't admit it to myself. But it's only in admitting these things to ourselves that we can resolve them. reminded me of when some people complain that the 1st NT, dukkha, is pessimistic and that the Buddha and Buddhists are just whining about their lives. When I say that we can observe some degree of unsatisfactoriness in every life, many respond with something like, "Well, I'm happy!" They often go on to declare very stubbornly that they're happy with their life. However, I know that within 5 minutes of the end of the conversation, they'll be complaining about their job or their spouse or the government or society or something. People are attached to their ideas and will often defend them when evidence to the contrary is as plain as the sun in the sky. We're a funny lot, aren't we?
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