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2007-03-15 13:22:56 · 7 answers · asked by Karasu 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The more you endure...the more you grow. The more you grow ..the closer you are to enlightenment... The closer you are to enlightenment the closer you are to nirvana. Heaven to the 10th degree
I don't quite buy the whole "suffer" and you will grow routine.
I can grow quite nicely enjoying life.
2007-03-15 13:29:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suffering is a fact of life. In fact, it is the first of The Four Noble Truths: the truth(s) of suffering(s). Even what is commonly perceived as happiness or contentment is suffering - the suffering of change - because sooner or later one will be separated from it. The suffering of suffering, the compounded, pervasive suffering - the suffering of aging and dying, the suffering of birth and death - the suffering of getting what one does not want, the suffering of not getting what one does want...these are enumerated in many different ways as the three sufferings, the six sufferings, etc. Anyway, if anything, the Dharma would teach one to recognize the source of these true sufferings, which would be the second Noble Truth, the Truth(s) of Origin(s), which is a cause for the first Noble Truth. The true origin of these sufferings is rooted in the grasping at intrinsic existence of self and phenomena. The third Noble Truth is the Truth(s) of Cessation(s) which is caused by the fourth Noble Truth the Truth(s) of Path(s). So, I have never heard that the most precious Buddhadharma teaches one to endure suffering - except maybe in the most coarse way to increase patience - but to eradicate the true source of suffering which is the grasping at inherent existence of self and phenomena.
2007-03-15 20:42:42 · answer #2 · answered by shrill alarmist, I'm sure 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure that's exactly how I would put it. If your hand is in the fire and you are suffering, you really need to pull it out - no sense enduring that. But all suffering is caused by past events, you cannot change the past. Learn the lesson, try to prevent this same suffering in the future. Suffering can teach.
There's much more about suffering in Buddhism - namely its inevitability, cause and ultimate cure - but that's really off topic. You might want to check into a ditty called The Four Noble Truths, it's kind of the primer on Buddhism.
2007-03-15 20:38:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What else can you do when you are suffering? Commit suicide? hardly. If you cannot endure suffering then you cannot endure life and you depart this world before your time, which in turn makes you liable to having to come back and serve your time.
2007-03-15 21:12:19 · answer #4 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddhists have a nice way of explaining the mystery. It is basically the same as the Christian teaching on dying to ourselves: "to live is to suffer, to suffer is caused by desire, to transcend desire is the middle way, the middle way leads to nirvana." Jesus Christ and the great saints of the Church took a different path. To end suffering one must not only learn how to control desires. One must also learn how to love unselfishly because love heals, nourishes and redeems us.
I hope this helps you.
Peace and every blessing!
2007-03-15 20:29:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They teach people to END suffering.
2007-03-15 20:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe it is just survival ...during a situation you cannot get out of...
endure or die
2007-03-15 20:31:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋