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Siddhartha

Does the all mighty Buddha have it right on the subject of life as suffering? I sit here and contemplate, day and night, scrunch my brain up in remembering just how I have really ever suffered. First, as an upper class young man of ease, sheltered by family and mothered, minimum efforts brought above average success in most all that I tried in life. One problem is I have no attachments, no long held beliefs or fear of death's scythe, the prescriptions for Buddha attainment. Giving up suffering, a conscious act makes Buddhahood hard for privileged, in fact.

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