If Buddha Were Alive Today, How Would He Answer The Question: "How Should One
Live"?
What is right? Who is to say what is right? How do we know what we are
doing is right? These are all questions that allude to how should one live?
Different people have different opinions on this area. Buddha's theory is one
way to answer the question.
Buddha has four noble truths. These four noble truths are suffering, the
origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the way of practice leading
to the cessation of suffering. If you go through all four of these truths, you
will live a "right" life.
Suffering, according to Buddha, is anything that doesn't cause pleasure.
Anytime you do not get what you want, it is suffering. Being born is suffering.
In Buddha's theory, isn't practically everything
we do then suffering? Buddha
defines suffering with the five aggregates of grasping. They are the aggreagates
of grasping that is form, feeling, perception, mental formaitons, and......
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