The pain from the sting of the dart and then the second dart of pain is from the ‘aversion’ to the first dart. Gosh, it seems the whole process could go on as a feed-back loop ad infinitum!! Aversion to the aversion of the pain to the aversion of the aversion... I can witness that cascade in myself. Man, the trick it would seem, and simplest way to stop the sequence is to just accept the first dart....or accept what the Buddha said that all life has in it some form of suffering. I can see that the next step would be to examine where the original dart came from; attachments and desires. That’s were your ‘spectrum’ helped me.
Buddhism has a beautiful way of showing the relationship of components involved in the causes of suffering.
Yes, I agree that the whole chain of events could continue indefinitely. That’s probably one way in which we create unnecessary (from a certain perspective) suffering for ourselves.
I doubt that I could prevent all darts all the time, but I might be able to watch my own reactivity enough to prevent some darts some of the time. 🙏
The pain from the sting of the dart and then the second dart of pain is from the ‘aversion’ to the first dart. Gosh, it seems the whole process could go on as a feed-back loop ad infinitum!! Aversion to the aversion of the pain to the aversion of the aversion... I can witness that cascade in myself. Man, the trick it would seem, and simplest way to stop the sequence is to just accept the first dart....or accept what the Buddha said that all life has in it some form of suffering. I can see that the next step would be to examine where the original dart came from; attachments and desires. That’s were your ‘spectrum’ helped me.
Buddhism has a beautiful way of showing the relationship of components involved in the causes of suffering.
Good stuff!! Thank you!!
Thank you!
Yes, I agree that the whole chain of events could continue indefinitely. That’s probably one way in which we create unnecessary (from a certain perspective) suffering for ourselves.
I doubt that I could prevent all darts all the time, but I might be able to watch my own reactivity enough to prevent some darts some of the time. 🙏