4/10 Dialogue with "Buddha Science" - Buddhism (Steve Daut)

 

Chapter 3, Buddhism

This is another Cc's Student's Workbook, of sorts, 

meaning a little repetition is to be expected, 

honing concepts and descriptions.

Is there anybody out there?

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Chapter 3a, Buddhism, Buddha Science

(edited July 28)

¶a1  “… (Buddhism’s) four noble truths can be stated as follows:

• Life is unsatisfying, and causes suffering and anxiety.
• We suffer because all things are impermanent, yet we crave pleasant things and push away unpleasant things.
• We can escape the suffering.
• Outlines a path that leads to escape from suffering.

I’m sharing these “Noble truths of Buddhism’ for a point of reference, with the single observation that reading it, I can’t help but notice that it reflects the same self-absorbed  human outlook, that is the hallmark of the “Abrahamic mindset” that I sometimes pick on.  

This exercise is all about me trying to convey an Earth Centrist, evolutionary bottom-up perspective on our human conundrums, which requires the ability to think outside of oneself.

In any event, I can only tell this story from my perspective, and though I’m rather ordinary, with 68 years I’ve come to appreciate I was blessed in circumstance, body, health, mind and heart - so mine was never a search for the solution to human pain, I was simply busy trying to make sense of the wonder of the creation I found myself embedded within.