“Into each life a little rain must fall.”
That was one of my mom’s favorite sayings. I thought she made it up. Turns out, she poached it from a poem written by the 19th-century American poet Henry Longfellow. The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Famous poems, famous poets. – All Poetry
Suffering…that’s the word that’s often used to describe the first truth in Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths. Such a strong word. A better translation is probably, disappointing. Life can let you down, right? The great days never last and the bad ones seem to last forever. Murphy’s Law, shit happens, call it what you like. Buddhism teaches that rather than being content or patient in the moment, we’re always grasping at the next thing that will make us happy. It’s like a dog chasing its tail. Buddhist thought offers that we’re better off seeing the world as it really is…embracing fully the good and the bad, the happy and the sad…as necessary parts in the constant flow and change in our lives.
Sound like a Buddhist. The word for the concept of suffering is the Sanskrit word “dukka”. It’s sometimes translated as “unsatisfactoriness”.
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