Posted: Mar 17, 2014 11:54 am
Yes absolutely. I avoided the word "grasping" because I don't like it, and prefer striving or competing as not having such negative connotations. I'm curious about Plato and would appreciate elaboration.Mick wrote:Just a note: suffering should have a broader application here. It should include existential suffering; that is, it should include stuff like excessive worrying, angst, and stuff of that sort. Any kind of grasping to that which fleets and is impermanent (which happens to be everything) leads to suffering. The goal then, for Buddhism, is to stop grasping.
This philosophy is in sharp contrast to Plato's.