Existential Comics

@existentialcoms But how can it be the fault of our self if there is no self?

@existentialcoms The Buddha and Epictetus were in cahoots.

@existentialcoms That's Theravada Buddhism. Mahayana sutras view suffering as a simple fact of existing, not karmic debt to be payed off.

@existentialcoms This is why most Mahayana teach enlightenment in one lifetime rather than accumulation of deeds.

@existentialcoms In that sense Karma is not the cause of suffering but merely the mechanism by which it perpetuates itself in the living.

@existentialcoms mmm...maybe more like a result of fundamental ignorance, so "any time we suffer" it's because we do not understand