Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Hard way
Ive got mixed feeling about this reading. I agree with his depection of expirienceing the hard way is going to be painful and hard, but that is definelty life. Things never go easy for you and in Trunpas words "it is an extremely narrow path with no escape, a painful path" I dont know if Im just in a pessimistic mood today but as I was reading that I had to agree that to think life is going to be otherwise is foolish hope. If we are going to get to the end of it we are going to be embarresed,shot down and dejected, but no one promised it was going to be easy. But what I noticed in the writing was that there didnt seem to be much enjoyment or even satsifaction in the hard way. That is where I differ from Trungpa,now I might be interpreting him wrong, but I think that despite all the hardships in life there can be some fullfll in life by oversoming the hardships that are thrown our way
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Matt, I think that I agree with a couple of the things that you said. Life is hard. And the hardships that we make it through will most likely build up our confidence right? But I don't think that the end of life has to be crappy. (I don't think that it was designed to be that way.) It's hard for me to grasp the idea of "simply facing the facts of life" (when I'm skeptical about the reality of those facts) rather than having hope for a relationship built on perfect love and eternal peace both from very equally possible facts of life. At any rate, I agree that the idea of deriving no satisfaction or enjoyment from life may not be right.
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