The first truth challenges our habitual relationship to anguish. ...
Anguish maintains it power only as long as we allow it to intimidate us. By habitually regarding it as fearful and threatening, we fail to see the words etched on it by the Buddha: "Understand Me." ...
To understand a worry is to know it calmly and clearly for what it is: transient, contingent, and devoid of intrinsic identity. Whereas to misunderstand it is to freeze it into something fixed, separate, and independent. ... The challenge of the first truth is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us.
S. Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs, 7-8
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07/25/2011
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