Please do not mistake renunciation of samsara as
renunciation of the world. Lord Buddha said we all walk in delusion,
projecting our own desires and cravings upon the phenomena of the world. Your suffering
is caused by how you see things, how you react to them. Your job is not to reject the world but to see
it as it is.
Whatever there is in the world, pleasant and beautiful, we
are attached to them, and we develop a dislike towards their opposites.
But a Buddhist knows that beauty carries pain and suffering
just as its opposite’s do. In samsara the so called good and bad things of life
are all bound up together. But this suffering is not truly caused by them but
rather in our own projections and cravings concerning them. You may have a loving caring relationship, but you must know it will change and end, No one loved the Buddha more than Ananda, and as he lay dying Ananda wept, and Buddha scolding him saying did I not tell you everything must pass.
Knowing this the
Buddhist recognizes beauty where the senses can perceive it. But in
beauty he also
sees its own change
and destruction. He remembers
what the Buddha said with regard to all component things, that
they come into
being, undergo change
and are destroyed. Therefore the wise man acquires a greater
depth of vision.
Believe me, Buddhism is not meant to suck all the
beauty and joy from your life. It is the philosophy of change and continuity.
And in it, don’t fail to see beauty which can ever be to man an unending source
of inspiring joy.
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