{"id":1750,"date":"2022-11-26T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/26\/buddhism-suffering-and-one-reason-i-am-not-a-buddhist\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:04:48","slug":"buddhism-suffering-and-one-reason-i-am-not-a-buddhist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/26\/buddhism-suffering-and-one-reason-i-am-not-a-buddhist\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism, Suffering, and One Reason I am not a Buddhist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/buddhism-suffering-and-one-reason?sd=pf\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">For Buddhism,&#0160;<em>all<\/em>&#0160;is<em>&#0160;dukkha<\/em>, suffering.&#0160;&#0160;<em>All<\/em>&#0160;is unsatisfactory.&#0160; This, the First Noble Truth, runs&#0160;contrary to ordinary modes of thinking:&#0160; doesn&#39;t life routinely offer us, besides pain and misery and disappointment, intense pleasures and deep satisfactions?&#0160; How then can it be true that<em>&#0160;all&#0160;<\/em>is unsatisfactory?&#0160; For the Buddhist, however, what is ordinarily taken by the unenlightened worldling &#0160;to be&#0160;<em>sukha<\/em>&#0160;(pleasure) is at bottom&#0160;<em>dukkha<\/em>.&#0160; Why?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. For Buddhism,&#0160;all&#0160;is&#0160;dukkha, suffering.&#0160;&#0160;All&#0160;is unsatisfactory.&#0160; This, the First Noble Truth, runs&#0160;contrary to ordinary modes of thinking:&#0160; doesn&#39;t life routinely offer us, besides pain and misery and disappointment, intense pleasures and deep satisfactions?&#0160; How then can it be true that&#0160;all&#0160;is unsatisfactory?&#0160; For the Buddhist, however, what is ordinarily taken by the unenlightened worldling &#0160;to be&#0160;sukha&#0160;(pleasure) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/26\/buddhism-suffering-and-one-reason-i-am-not-a-buddhist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buddhism, Suffering, and One Reason I am not a Buddhist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}