The only thing the Dharma offers you is avoiding suffering. It does not explain why there is suffering, it does not explain why you are here, it does not explain where you are going and more importantly it doesn't explain you. It avoids "you", it negates "you". Anatman. https://twitter.com/CaligulaTheWise/status/971901191423741953 …
There are whole treatises that explain suffering which largely has to do with sunyatapic.twitter.com/7gKOzLCgja
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What treatises? In my experience suffering has been explained within a “how” context. The imperfect state of being in samsara that leads to longing, attachment, and suffering is never really given an ontology, there is no “fall” so to speak, just a description of circumstances.
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But that's really the whole point, that there is no reiyfing of suffering apart from the impermanence of being (qua mutual arising) it challenges the fall ontology of the occident.
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A western equivalent would be heideggarian "being-with" of Dasein as always relational, not representation of being like in the western platonic tradition. There are strengths and weaknesses in both Buddhist and Christian ontology is what I'm saying.
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