reflection paper

Humanities

one page paper, double space, please response questions with reading that i provide as much as possible.

here is the questions

  • On the basis of its analysis of the problem of suffering, some have concluded that Buddhism must be judged a bleak, pessimistic and world-denying philosophy. What do you think?
  • “We are speeding, trying to get rid of our pain, and we find more pain by doing so. Pain is very real. We cannot pretend that we are all happy and secure. Pain is our constant companion. It goes on and on-all pervading pain, the pain of alternation and the pain of pain.If we are seeking eternity or happiness or security, then the experience of life is one of pain, duhkha, suffering.” (please comment on this passage fro Chogyam Trungpa’s “Suffering,”The Myth of Freedom)

Here is the reading list

  • Dhamma-cakka-ppavattana-sutta (in Hanh, Heart of Buddha’s Teaching)
  • Gethin, “The Buddha: The story of the awakened one” in Foundations: 7-34