A Primer on Buddhist Philosophy
#3 - The Truth of Ending Dissatisfaction
The Buddha also discovered the way through the messy dissatisfaction.
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The Truth of Ending Dissatisfaction
There is a way out of this messiness.
Great news, right?
“Hell, yeah… I’m in! Where do I sign?”
Although no magic pill will stop the endless highs and lows, we can change our relationship with it and be free of its effect on us.
But first, we need to understand what causes the highs and lows we spoke of earlier.
⛩️ The way out isn’t magic, meditation, incantations, or chants. It’s doing the inner work of observing how and why we create attachments; when we understand this, we can eliminate the habit and, subsequently, our dissatisfaction.
The Buddha not only figured this out, but he also laid out a path to follow that led to the absence of dissatisfaction.