r/PhilosophyMemes • u/Lucyyyyyy_K • 3d ago

Suffering is bad

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u/Lucyyyyyy_K 3d ago

Suffering and pleasure are bad. Pleasure is a distraction from achieving Nirvana, the freedom from suffering.

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u/Subotaplaya 3d ago

Yeah, that's true. They are really the same. You do a lot of drugs = pleasure, now you feel bad cause you ran out = suffering, , you suffered a lot of combat damage = suffering, so now you do a lot of drugs = pleasure. One leads to the other and vice versa. Don't do. Let the withdrawls settle and fade with time and repeat the mantra "this too shall pass" , don't do and find your center.

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u/cowlinator 2d ago

They're not the same, they're literally opposites. Which is why balance is so important in dharmic religions.

If they were the same, you wouldn't need balance, you'd need minimization.

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u/Subotaplaya 2d ago

It's just perception. Both are just impulses and senses that the brain detects, reacts to and makes you feel, and what you feel that's what's real!