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Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)

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Sidata - The Buddha's Guide to Suffering

Sidata is a great little book, but anyone who has suffered greatly knows that this is an overtly, almost offensive, reductionist, overly simplistic approach to pain. Pain is one side of the binery. This is something that we get out of sedata too. We see the ducca succa binery. What is that? Duka, which means suffering or pain, sucka, which means sweetness. You cannot have one without the other. The buddha was such a proponent for the eradication of craving, or trisna. No craving, no pain.

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