In Advayavada Buddhism, the Noble Eightfold Path is interpreted dynamically
as an ongoing, autonomous, non-prescriptive, investigative and creative
process of progressive insight reflecting in human terms overall existence
advancing over time. By following the Noble Eightfold Path thus you get in
tune with wondrous overall existence advancing over time; sorrow, doubt and
remorse immediately start disappearing; and your life soon gathers new
impetus.
This week's preliminary ASP subject are again the second and the third noble
truths of Buddhism: the cause of suffering, which is craving, grasping,
clinging and attachment (= trishna), and the need and possibility of its
elimination (= nirodha).
The root cause of all ill in Buddhism is, in fact, ignorance (avidya), i.e.
ignorance of the true nature of reality, when the impermanence and
selflessness or finitude of all existents are not fully recognized and
understood, and it is this ignorance which in turn gives rise to craving
(trishna), the direct cause of existential distress. Man is prone to
suffering (duhkha) quite simply because he strives after and tries to hold
on to things and concepts which he believes to be permanent, but are not.
The purpose of the ASP is that we study and discuss the meaning and
implications of the weekly subject in the context of whatever we ourselves
are presently doing or are concerned with, or about, such as our health,
relationships, work, study, our place in society, etc.
Tip: Write down this week's subject (craving and its elimination) in your
pocket diary!
John Willemsens,
Advayavada Foundation.
<http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/index.htm>
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