'Nothingness' on perimeter wall, Yongtai Temple, Dengfeng
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"One of The Four Noble Truths is 'Suffering is due to attachment'. We might say that at least much of the suffering we experience comes out of ourselves, out of our desire to make pleasure, happiness, and love last forever and to make pain, distress, and grief disappear from life altogether ..... Our lack of "essence" or preordained structure, our "nothingness," leads us to crave solidity. We are, you could say, whirlwinds who wish they were rocks. We cling to things in the hopes that they will provide us with a certain "weight." We try to turn our loved ones into things by demanding that they not change, or we try to change them into perfect partners, not realizing that a statue, though it may live forever, has no love to give us. We try to become immortal, whether by anxiety-driven belief in fairy-tales, or by making our children and grand-children into clones of ourselves, or by getting into the history books or onto the talk shows. We even cling to unhappy lives because change is too frightening." Extract from "Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy" by C. George Boeree, Ph.D., Shippensburg University, USA (http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/buddhap sych.html)
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