Re: The "First Noble Truth" is not so Noble

I agree with you that to view life only as suffering and hence seek only to detach from it is a view that will not lead to being able to follow the eightfold path

the philosophy of Nichiren Daishonin again, it could be found at sgi-usa.org . Nichiren distilled the essence of the Buddha's teaching and made it practical for ordinary people to practice without having to be monks or priests etc... As Nichiren does state, no one is free from suffering, not even saints and sages. His point is that every life is going to have problems and obstacles, that is part of being born, but will you use those problems to create value is the question. never does he state that life in its entirety is suffering, rather its one aspect of this wonderful experience called existence. Religion should exist for the sake of the happiness of people, there for if people were not capable of being happy (or enlightened) it would have no purpose.

In my own personal practice of Buddhism, the more I have used it to overcome problems and erase delusions in my own life, the happier I have become in the very core of my being, a kind of happiness that even struggles of modern life cannot erase.



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