“Sit down, son. There’s something I want to tell you.”
“What’s that, dad?”
“Life is painful.”
“Sit down, son. There’s something I want to tell you.”
“What’s that, dad?”
“Life is painful.”
In light of the first of the Four Noble Truths (Life is suffering), shouldn’t birth be swaddled in sorrow and death elicit a sober joy?
Death is the opposite of birth, not Life. Life has no opposite.
If we don’t know this, and know it profoundly, we are spiritually hogtied.