In Buddhism, I have learned and experience that suffering comes in many form. This is an enduring world, hence it is called 'Samsara', As we endure, so we experience happiness too. Positive emotions like Joy, Gladness, Happiness, Comfort, Contentment these are also deemed as suffering! Why is this so? I tried to examine this on a deeper level, Happiness is a kind of mental state, So is anger, sorrow, spite, and other negative emotions. Notice how I term these emotional states as positive or negative. Why do I put a label on it?
I have come to understand that these are just labels we put to make these states some kind of meaning to me. If I take out these labels, symbols, what does these states means? it means nothing... it is just a phenomena... Does that make sense? I think so... So, if I can understand this, this means that what ever I experience through the 5 faculties are just experiences and I should try my best to see it as just experience, not to label it. If I want to be happy, I will do or create an action to make the end result, a happy state.
But as I am here for reasons only known when I have attained some kind of wisdom to perceive and understand, so I have to endure in this samsara world and do my best to practice the Dharma at any given opportunities...
Can I transcend the two states of 'Positive' and 'Negative'? I am not sure if I can achieve it in this lifetime, perhaps... perhaps not. It is up to me...
I do hope this short entry will inspire you to investigate further... I used be a follower that does not question, Now, I not only follow, I also question and investigate...
