Human Life and Problems
Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda
FACING REALITIES
Today many people lead an artificial life not knowing its danger. Many of our problems are created by us due to our crazy attitude caused by temptation.
Simplicity makes life run smoothly. Many of us realise and experience them only when we grow old.
For example, let us assume there is a pit about 100 feet deep and we put burning charcoal at the bottom. We then lower a ladder into it and ask people to go down one by one. Those who start to go down do not complain about the heat until they go further down to a depth of 30 to 40 feet. After 40 to 50 feet, they feel a certain amount of heat.
When they go still further down to 70 or 80 feet and reach nearer to the burning charcoal, they will experience the sensation of burning. In the same manner, young people do not experience suffering although the Buddha says life is one of suffering.
But it is a good analogy to explain that as we gain more experience we see the truth about suffering more clearly.
The real meaning of suffering is experiencing unsatisfactoriness in everything.
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