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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Everything Changes

Buddha taught us Four Noble Truths, and first of all he taught us this world is a world of suffering. When we seek for happiness, to say this world is a world of suffering, you may be very much disappointed with this teaching. He continues: Why we suffer is this world is a world of transiency, everything changes. But we want everything to be permanent. Especially when we have something good or when we see something beautiful, we want it to be always in that way. But actually, everything changes. So, that is why we suffer.

Kitchen Altar for Grahame Petchey

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-12-21 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.