How was the Buddhas teaching different to the saying Dont expect anything and you wont be disappointed?
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Think with me a moment about a sad fact of life--together we can decide how to best to work around it:
The higher you fly, the farther there is to fall. Every uptick in luck is packaged with a potential downturn of equal magnitude. From cradle to grave sooner or later one has to relinquish every uplifting gain. Merce Cunningham cultivated flawless physical form, but did not get to keep it 'til the end. Beauties don't get to keep theirbeauty. Geniuses don't get to keep their wits. The higher your star rises in your youth, the greater the loss you experience as your star falls. If you buy a pet dog, it comes packaged with a pet dog's death, and the more adorable the pet the more devastating the death. All windfalls and gifts are a devil's bargain, bought at the expense of losing it later.
To deal with the downs that accompany life's ups, we get philosophical. Got to take the good with the bad, the fleas (or death) with the dog. Adversity teacheswisdom. It's how we learn compassion for the suffering of others and the cyclicalnature of life. A life of constant uplift would be shallow.
Anyone who reads my columns knows I don't shirk the philosophical approach. But none of us embrace it wholeheartedly. We prefer up to down by a lot.
The higher you fly, the farther there is to fall. Every uptick in luck is packaged with a potential downturn of equal magnitude. From cradle to grave sooner or later one has to relinquish every uplifting gain. Merce Cunningham cultivated flawless physical form, but did not get to keep it 'til the end. Beauties don't get to keep theirbeauty. Geniuses don't get to keep their wits. The higher your star rises in your youth, the greater the loss you experience as your star falls. If you buy a pet dog, it comes packaged with a pet dog's death, and the more adorable the pet the more devastating the death. All windfalls and gifts are a devil's bargain, bought at the expense of losing it later.
To deal with the downs that accompany life's ups, we get philosophical. Got to take the good with the bad, the fleas (or death) with the dog. Adversity teacheswisdom. It's how we learn compassion for the suffering of others and the cyclicalnature of life. A life of constant uplift would be shallow.
Anyone who reads my columns knows I don't shirk the philosophical approach. But none of us embrace it wholeheartedly. We prefer up to down by a lot.
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