Fucking Dukkha

[pr0flupin]

Do you ever feel like something’s missing?

So you take a good hard look around and ask yourself, “Okay, wtf am I missing?”

Something’s "Missing."

I am feeling this overwhelmingly right now.  The more we want-the more we want.  I am not materialistic, but I am greedy.  I am desirous of life.  I thirst for more and more and more experience:

Comments

[lucy_lupin]

I go through phases like that when I'm missing things, not in a materialistic way, but I just feel like I'm missing out on something. And LJ should have "dukkha" listed as a current mood ;p

[pr0flupin]

So for the phase to pass, does any real change take place? Or does it come and go as a matter of perception?

[lucy_lupin]

Well, it seems like a lot of the things they mentioned as being examples of dukkha are perception-based, so maybe the change that they are talking about is not so much a physical or circumstantial change but an internal one.

Hmmm.

[frugal_fatshion]

Missing.

"missing out" is more like it.

But there have been times when I get the things I "miss" and I still feel like something's missing. In that case, I think even with a real change, unless our perception of what we should be happy with changes, we'll miss and miss and miss and miss.

And that's not a good way to live. One can't fully appreciate what they do have if all they do is wish for more.

But, maybe this is an illusion.
Maybe.
But also
Maybe not.

Re: Hmmm.

[pr0flupin]

LOL. Exactly: "Maybe. But also Maybe not."

[pr0flupin]

It fascinates me too, FAR more than any other "religion."

I could try to explain, but I'm only just learning myself. The best I could do is try to answer questions to the best of my understanding.

For me, it's just a matter of taking small steps on the path: practicing meditation to try to eliminate suffering via desire, working toward non-attachment, making merit/good karma...

My personal struggle right now deals with attachment vs. non-attachment (icon).

[pr0flupin]

Attachment can come in so many forms, not just to material goods, but to ideas, people, happiness, life itself.

Suffering comes when we are "attached" to almost anything.

http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/buddhism/nonatt.htm

I'm struggling with the notion of becoming non-attached versus saying fuck it and wallowing in attachment (which no doubt is at the root of suffering).