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March 06, 2002
A little pasada with your samvega?
The story of Siddhartha is now an often repeated parable of how an Indian prince dropped out of society to find nirvana. The issue that confronted Siddhartha was the vicious cycle of life,sickness,old age, death that seemed to provide no plausible reasons for living.
Samvega is the complex emotion that is the result of the realization that your life is stuck in a rut and you see no way out. Pasada is the feeling of supreme confidence and clarity. With Pasada life makes complete sense. (I assume pasada is the result of kensho/satori which are the japenese terms (Samvega/pasada are Pali Sanskrit terms)).
The Bhavana sociey has one of the best articles on Buddhism that I've read in a while. [via metafilter
Posted at March 6, 2002 04:31 PMComments
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