January 31, 2019 at 3:50 pm
#21695
Participant
hi @Student…(aren’t we all…?)
- “why not the start” … apparently (but only apparently) the Buddha was not an adept of a “start”. Didn’t you already notice how much boring can be to have a start (and thus an end) clearly in your mind ?
- What brings you more satisfaction : the quest for solving a mystery or its solution? Notice how boring can be when hindus start talking about the Brahman (NOT Brahma. Brahman equates to Supreme Consciousness) : from the Brahman you came (in a way or another) to the Brahman you’ll return and that’s all folks. Isn’t this somehow disappointing ? But that which Gotama Buddha proposes it’s vertiginously original…
- Also the more one approaches nibanna, the less one cares about “start”…
- Moreover he knew that such quest would become just one more source of clinging (possibly the biggest one) thus of suffering…