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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   Catawumpus :   
      
   [to Jigme]   
      
   >>  You ignorantly insisted that "Buddhism does   
   >> not comment negatively on life here," an obvious falsehood   
   >> since teachings like the Four Noble Truths cast a very critical   
   >å> eye on worldly existence.   
      
   glitch :   
      
   > that's the thing. buddhism isn't made to settle for things as they are   
   > or they would have settled for things as they are and not made it. the   
   > four noble truths is a diagnosis of a problem with worldly existence and   
   > the path way to cure the problem.  like the doctors critical pov.   
      
        Agreed that Buddhism doesn't settle for things as they are.   
   Worldly existence is the problem in the Four Noble Truths:   
   birth is dukkha, death is dukkha, aging is dukkha, so forth and   
   so on.  The source of trouble is the craving that leads to   
   rebirth, the solution is the end of same, and the Eightfold Way   
   is the means to that end.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)