[MD] Horse, Is this proper conduct?

[MarshaV]

Michael,

What is your understanding of dukkha?  And how did you come to that understanding? 


Marsha
 
 
 



On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:40 PM, "Michael R. Brown" <mrb at fuguewriter.com> wrote:

> On 3/11/2013 9:32 AM, MarshaV wrote:
>> RMP: "When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they too interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide."
> 
> A lot of it goes back to that terrible mistranslation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha as "suffering.". That introduced a dry-hair, scratchy-shirt Puritanism we see in American Buddhism to this day.
> 
> The Noble Truth is more like, "Like gets out of joint / doesn't run smoothly."
> 
> The relation to ZMM and Lila - both of which have to do with smooth/unsmooth running - is obvious.
> 
> 
> MRB
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