These are very hard times

[vlyons]

"These are very hard times. When we feel we are emerging, BAM, another difficulty arises. This is what the Buddha called the suffering of suffering, one suffering upon another. How can we maintain our sanity, let alone joy? Remember others who are suffering in the same way, one after another. Realize as with all things, these sufferings are impermanent. If you can, recognize that we are clearing out negative karma from the past, and rejoice. Finally, all appearances are false. Loosen your grip on a fixed objective reality, particularly of the one suffering, yourself. Emaho!"

--- The 14th Dalai Lama

[madaboutharry]

1. Thank you for posting.

[ashredux]

2. 🙏

[Joinfortmill]

3. Let us hope.

[multigraincracker]

4. A Taoist might see sfuffering as

as the price paid for joy, as one defines the other.

[wackadoo wabbit]

6. No, a Taoist wouldn't consider what a person might call suffering as "suffering"

Taoists believe that everything is just as it should be. Nothing is "suffering."

Here're a couple of links that might explain it better than I can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_vinegar_tasters#Taoism_(Daoism)

https://www.thechurning.net/there-are-no-opportunities-or-threats-the-parable-of-the-taoist-farmer/

[multigraincracker]

7. I have always took the story of the wild horse

as an example of the mutual interdependence of polar opposites, a basic of Taoism. Both good and bad arise together. Without one there would no reason to name it or the other. If all luck was good it would not need a name. Names are only symbols used to separate. Without bad luck there would no reason to name good luck. The farmer understood that when his neighbors told him he was lucky and when they thought he was unlucky. The farmer knew they were like heads and tails of the same coin. That is the Yin and Yang.

[johnthewoodworker]

5. The human species is bad. I think climate change will do its job.