A couple of years ago I read the story of a young prince Siddhartha who evolved into an awakened one or the Buddha. The story of Buddha is one where one can find inspiration and hope to find the answers of most questions that people struggle with. One of them is about the nature of suffering. What is suffering? How can one free himself from suffering? These are questions of prime importance as the answers they point at, can provide us the solution to almost every problem that we go through in our everyday lives.
One of Buddha’s most popular teaching comes in the form of a discovery, revealing us the nature of desire. Buddha taught that the root cause of suffering is desire.
I once had problem in understanding this. After all, nurturing desires is a part of our human nature. How can one go against his own nature? Is it even possible?
I am not sure how to do it, but last night I scribbled something on my notepad.
It all starts with desire which if fulfilled, leads to happiness but it is short lived and so in order to sustain that happiness more desires are supposed to be born, which completes the circle. However, if the desire if unfulfilled the whole equation takes a different turn, it leads to an undesirable state called suffering, exactly how the Buddha professed.
No comments:
Post a Comment