beyond the [horrids] of life

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."


The secret of happiness, according to the Buddha is realising the Four Noble Truths:

1. Life is full of dissatisfactions,
2. They have their causes in our wanting (greed) and not-wanting (hatred), that comes from our ignorance,
3. The end of dissatisfactions is possible, &
4. The way to end dissatisfactions is the Noble Eightfold Path.



4Repentance

If we were to all be truly repentant, in a flash, Samsara would disappear. Samsara is the manifestation of unrepentant sentient beings' delusions. Yet repentance has to begin somewhere- the individual. True repentance is simply the clear recognition of all of one's misgivings, coupled with sincere resolution not to repeat the same mistakes. Your personal Samsara will start fading, your wheel of life and death start slowing down-slow enough for you to get off. The common mistake of repentance is the heart of repentance being "true" only for a while. We think we learnt when we never really learnt.










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