..续本文上一页doesn”t go away, so it goes under a rock, into the forest, into the village, but of course, wherever it goes it always takes the mange with it. It doesn”t matter where we go in this world, or in other worlds, that suffering which we experience now will go with us. There is no escape in that way because suffering is inherent to human existence and even to the existence of the devas (heavenly beings).
Whether you get into Jhanas or you don”t, there is still suffering. After a while of looking at all the different aspects and all the different types of happiness to be found in the world - sex, drugs, rock”n”roll, even right up to the high meditative happinesses - you see that each one of them are by their very nature impermanent and are therefore conducive to suffering. After a while you realise what the Lord Buddha was saying: form is suffering, feeling is suffering, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are suffering - the whole caboodle is suffering.
When you truly see suffering, and that wherever you go suffering will be with you, then you get revulsion towards this thing we call existence. You find that whether it”s in the deva realms or in the hell realms or in the human realm, it”s just like the dog going to different places to get rid of the itch. It”s just that some realms hurt more than others, but all realms hurt. When the Jhana realms fall apart, there comes the hurt and pain. The higher the happiness you have, the more suffering there is when that happiness disappears. It”s like people in the world, the more they love someone, the more they suffer when that person dies. The more you love your existence in the great Jhana realms, in the higher deva realms (brahmaloka), the more suffering there is when that existence collapses and disappears. This is the nature of experience. After a while you realise that the whole purpose of the Buddha”s teaching is to end suffering through the ending of birth - to find the cause for birth and to eliminate that cause.
Why Would You Crave For Suffering
As to this particular life you have now, you”re stuck with it. If you try to end it prematurely you just get another life, and you have to go through the whole thing all over again. That”s not the way to end life, through suicide. You end life through cutting off craving, cutting off the cause. If you investigate things according to Dependent Origination (Paticca Samuppada), you will see how rebirth occurs and what this process is that makes you go into another life in the future. You are already fueling that process now from the delusion of a self and from the delusion that there is some happiness somewhere in the world. You crave based on the lie that somewhere, some place, there can be happiness, there can be fulfillment, there can be what you really want. What you are really looking for in the world, "It”s over there somewhere", so you think. For that reason you crave.
If you knew there is no happiness in the world - no place, no where - why would you crave
All sorts of craving would be taken away. If you really saw that "all formations are suffering" if you could actually understand and accept this fully, that would be the end of craving. Why would you crave for dukkha
You only crave for what you assume to be happiness. This ”happiness” has been burning you for lifetime, after lifetime, after lifetime.
When I ask myself what I really want, I always get the same answer. What I really want is more dukkha. "Stupid monk, shut up!" Seeing that you”re looking and searching for more dukkha, is a good way to end wanting. You actually see that the illusion (avijja) is that you think you”re going to get happiness. Again, if you see with clear understanding that what you really want is suffering, you can give up wanting. What d…
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