Toni Bernhard - Handling the Mix of Joys and Sorrows in Life
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Isn't Buddhism Pessimistic?
In the third chapter of how to be sick, i titled it the buddha tells it like it is. It's funny, when i first went to a buddhist class many, many years ago, and the first thing that the teacher said was, we're all subject to age, illness and death. And i thought, what a bummer. I don't want to hear about these things. But after those dark years of being sick and blaming myself and feeling frustrated, i looked at that first noble truth: "The buddha understands what i'm going through"
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