The talk

“Sit down, son. There’s something I want to tell you.”

“What’s that, dad?”

“Life is painful.”

Countercultural

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.

Life is hard

If we don’t know this, and know it profoundly, we are spiritually hogtied.