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The Soft Alert, Steadiness of Being A Ninja In Our Practices Of Wholeness - Rick Hanson, Ph.D. - ND3699

New Dimensions

CHAPTER

The Buddhist Truth: Life Is Suffering

The Buddha basically said in his so-called noble truths, which could be better translated as four and no bling truths. They are the truths for the noble ones because we're drawn to them by what's noble within us. So first one of which is there is suffering. Life itself is an abstraction. It's not suffering. The physical objects that make up a living body, cells are not suffering. And inevitably, poignantly, we're going to fail.

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