
Ep. 13 - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Second Truth - Suffering Is Caused by Desire
Suffering is caused by desire. Once you realize it as a provocation, once i should like, the point is, you should feel threatened. So what do you do? That's what the buddha meant, when you realize that all your life is threatened by duka. He didn't mean believe that all of life is suffering. It means this sense of a narrowing of yourself and the world, so that agency and options are lost. The traditional presentation is the cessation of suffering is attainable. But realize a better way of putting that is realized that you can recover your agency,. You can use the same machinery to anagogically ascend out of the cave towards the sun of
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