[MD] Plain and Simple

[Marsha Valkyr]

I decided to reread Steve Hagen's book 'Buddhism Plain and Simple'.


   "What is the Basic human problem that no apparent remedy will cure?  What is our  existence all abut?  How can we ever possibly comprehend the whole of it?  And yet isn't knowledge of the Whole --- knowledge that's not relative or dependent on changing conditions --- precisely what would be required to free us from the doubts and dilemmas that cause us so much anxiety?

   "We long to be free from our confusion and discontent, not to have to live out our lives chained helplessly to uncertainty and fear.  Yet we often do not realize that it's precisely our confused state of mind that binds us.

   "There is a way to move beyond this ignorance, pessimism, and confusion, and to experience --- rather than comprehend --- Reality as a Whole.  This experience is not based on any conception or belief; it is direct perception itself.  It's _seeing_ before signs appear, before ideas sprout, before falling into thought."

         (Hagen, Steve, 'Buddhism: Plain and Simple', Tuttle Co., inc., P. 2)


 
 
 
 
  
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