Buddha & the Fly

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JellyJam

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The flaw of Buddhism is this.

Life is suffering.
Suffering is caused by desire.
Cut off your desires.

Nonsense!

Life is not suffering.
Suffering is caused by want.
Cut off your want's.
 
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GTW27

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The flaw of Buddhism is this.

Life is suffering.
Suffering is caused by desire.
Cut off your desires.

Nonsense!

Life is not suffering.
Suffering is caused by want.
Cut off your want's.


"The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want"
 

GTW27

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You don't need a Bible to tell you that.

In my case you are correct, for He has anointed me to preach The Gospel(Good News). "The Spirit of The Lord God is upon me, because The Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted, He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those that are bound"
 

bbyrd009

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The flaw of Buddhism is this.

Life is suffering.
Suffering is caused by desire.
Cut off your desires.

Nonsense!

Life is not suffering.
Suffering is caused by want.
Cut off your want's.
um you would have to...no, wait, you don't, um, you might though define the diff here desire/want for um all the other ppl who maybe don't understand you here since I of course totally already know for a fact beyond a doubt what you mean, almost surely probably, ty.
 
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shnarkle

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The flaw of Buddhism is this.

Life is suffering.
Suffering is caused by desire.
Cut off your desires.

Nonsense!

Life is not suffering.
Suffering is caused by want.
Cut off your want's.

I see no effective difference between wants and desires. I don't agree that Buddhism suggests one cut off their desires, but that the one who desires be cut off instead. In other words, when the one who wants and desires is cut off, it is cut at the root. Therefore, one needn't deal with each individual desire and want, but the one who wants and desires instead.

One cut instead of a death by a thousand cuts.