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Jan. 25th, 2003 10:17 pm"While we find that there are many factors and conditions that cause pain and suffering in our lives, the conditions that would give rise to joy and happiness are comparatively rare."-His Holiness the Dalai Lama,_Healing Anger, The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective_, p.23.
It is at that moment, with those words, that my mind hits a wall. I've been musing over this in different forms now for months, and simply *can't* come to it. Wouldn't the scale of conditions that give us joy depend on where our joy came from? Isn't it simply a matter of what joy means to us, a matter, therefore, of perspective?
I feel like I'm missing something, like I'm misreading the concept. I can understand pain as an element of life, but not as such an all-pervasive one, especially taking the concept of impermanence as a given. (i.e. I am cold now, but I will be warm soon, therefore the cold doesn't need to matter.) I just can't get it to make sense to myself.
Jade
It is at that moment, with those words, that my mind hits a wall. I've been musing over this in different forms now for months, and simply *can't* come to it. Wouldn't the scale of conditions that give us joy depend on where our joy came from? Isn't it simply a matter of what joy means to us, a matter, therefore, of perspective?
I feel like I'm missing something, like I'm misreading the concept. I can understand pain as an element of life, but not as such an all-pervasive one, especially taking the concept of impermanence as a given. (i.e. I am cold now, but I will be warm soon, therefore the cold doesn't need to matter.) I just can't get it to make sense to myself.
Jade
