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**Slonopotam845** · 08-01-2013, 06:43 AM

I heard Buddhism summarized this way: "Pain is inevietable. Suffering is optional."
I am no expert but I'll weigh in anyway in terms of the language. It is my understanding that many times teachers would beat their students about the head, strike them to further their education. Not in a brutal way, mind you, but in an instructive, mind opening way. I view your post in the same light.

08-01-2013, 06:43 AM	#2
Slonopotam845 Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 5,251 Senior Member	I heard Buddhism summarized this way: "Pain is inevietable. Suffering is optional." I am no expert but I'll weigh in anyway in terms of the language. It is my understanding that many times teachers would beat their students about the head, strike them to further their education. Not in a brutal way, mind you, but in an instructive, mind opening way. I view your post in the same light.
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