Suffering isn't going to get you into heaven. Buddhism also won't get you into heaven.
The truth is that Jesus already suffered for us.
The truth is that JESUS is God, and only Jesus offers a free gift of salvation by faith alone in Jesus without works.
Every other belief system forces you to try to "earn" heaven, or to ignore heaven (like atheism)
But nobody can "earn" heaven, and ignoring heaven just leaves the person unsaved and on the way to hell.
The truth is that the death and blood of Jesus is the only acceptable SACRIFICE and PAYMENT for our sins, and we are all sinners. JESUS died on the cross and shed His blood, for our sins. Nothing else pays for any of our sins. All the good deeds in the world won't pay for even ONE of our sins. All the "living a moral life" won't pay for even one of our sins. No "religions of the world" can pay for Antone's sins.
The truth is that Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead. That is why Jesus had to die on the cross, because there is no other way for us to be saved. You must believe in Jesus for His free gift of salvation, to be saved! John 3:16! That easy to get into heaven!
The truth about Jesus is that the only way to be saved and to get into heaven and avoid being sent to hell, is by believing in JESUS for His free gift of eternal life in heaven, believing in faith alone that Jesus, who is God, died on the cross for all our sins as FULL PAYMENT for all our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believe in Jesus for His free gift of salvation, and you will be in heaven, no matter what! John 3:16, John 6:47!
Jesus is God, and Jesus loves you so very much! And the Trinity is true!
Salvation is a FREE GIFT that happens in a split second when you believe in JESUS for His free gift of salvation! It is impossible to lose or "leave" salvation (John 6:39-40, John 10:28, 1 John 5:13).
Please pray now: "Jesus, I believe that You died on the cross to pay for my sins and that You rose from the dead, and I thank You for eternal life!" You will be in heaven with Him forever when you die!
The ONLY WAY to get into heaven, is by believing in Jesus for His free gift of salvation! John 14:6, Acts 4:12, John 3:16!
you have to use energy. you have to become active. your body might get hotter. you might even get shock. some do get heart-attack.
comparing with being completely calm, excitement is obviously the more active condition. in calmness, you need to do nothing - it's the state of peace. in excitement you have to - you have to lose that precious calmness or peace.
whether you lost a little of peace or extreme, your lose is just a lose. that's kind of suffering. we can bear that amount, we like to, we like excitement. but what we like is suffering itself in this case.
The excitement is the result of the following immoral consciousness (i.e., cit ta or mind):-
1) Dosa: hatred, fear, and anger
2) Lobha: greed caused by--- visible objects (money, new car, new girl/boy friend), sound (music), odor (perfume), taste (good food), tangible objects (sex) and mind-objects (lovely thought).
3) Moha:lack of knowledge about the truth of nature (i.e.,Ignorance or delusion.)
These minds cause mental suffering and prevent further development of the Right Concentration (Sammasamadhi.)
Dukkha is translated into suffering, but it has more deep meaning beside suffering, i.e: discontent, unsatisfactoriness, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, and frustration.
We can easily notice Pain of Pain in illness, old age, death, bereavement, but hardly notice the Pain of Alteration (They are suffering caused by change: violated expectations, the failure of happy moments to last etc.) and Subtle form of Suffering arising as a reaction to qualities of conditioned things.
For a hungry man, a plate of spaghetti is happiness, satisfaction, excitement. But for the 2ND, 3rd plates, is it still happiness, excitement for him? Can he rely his happiness on some plates of meal? Conditions of full up has altered the feeling of satisfaction. "Happiness" is a conditioned feeling, meaning that it needs certain condition to stay happy. Since happiness depends on "happy" conditions, once these happy conditions are diminished or gone, the state of happiness diminishes correspondingly. On another level, if the happy condition is just stagnant, the happiness will in due course diminish because the person will become bored with the same condition.
Sure, there are also positive experiences in life that we perceive as the opposite of suffering, such as ease, comfort and happiness, but life in its totality is imperfect and incomplete, because our world is subject to impermanence. This means we are never able to keep permanently what we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, we ourselves and our loved ones will pass away one day, too. Every conditioned things has the characteristic of three marks of existence: impermanence (Anica), suffering (Gurkha) and not-self (Anetta). Insofar as it is dynamic, ever-changing, uncontrollable and not finally satisfactory, unexamined, life is itself precisely Gurkha.
So, the Buddha said in Samyutta Nikaya #35: "What ordinary folk call happiness, the enlightened ones call Gurkha". We tend to look for happiness outside ourselves, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our time adjusting the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes. All our life we have tried to surround ourselves with people and things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness. Furthermore, the greed in us will seek for more and more in order to sustain the same level of happiness. In the final analysis, the person will never be happy because he needs to strive for more of the same or seek for alternative "happy" conditions" to stay "happy".
Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances. Happiness begins with developing an understanding of what are the truest sources of happiness and setting your priorities in life based on the cultivation of those sources. The journey to attain a deeper form of happiness requires an unflinching look into the face of a reality where all life is seen as Gurkha or mental dysfunction. Buddhism is a philosophy and practice that is extremely concerned with the mind and its various delusions, misunderstandings and cravings but, happily for us, sees a way out through higher consciousness and mindful practice. Buddhism pursues happiness by using knowledge and practice in everyday life to achieve mental equanimity, a deep sense of well-being and happiness. The highest goal, Nibbana is the highest bliss, a supramundane state of eternal happiness. The happiness of Nibbana cannot be experienced by indulging the senses but calming them. The joy of Nibbanic cure can hardly be compared to the temporary Samsaric pleasure gained through fulfilling the sense desires. If there is any attachment to anyone or to anything or if there is any aversion to anyone or anything, you will never attain Nibbana, for Nibbana is beyond all opposites of attachment and aversion, likes and dislikes.
Because we do not have control over it and it is very subjective.
Dukha is mistranslated as suffering into English.
In fact, it should be unsatisfactory.
You cannot be excited about something unless you are attached to it ... really attached. Face it ... excitement doesn't happen when you are presented with something that doesn't matter much to you.
Both attachment and aversion cause our dissatisfaction (suffering) with life. They get their hooks into us, and jerk us around, pulling us this way, that way, and creating emotional waves. We are not free ... if attachment can "hook" us, so can aversion.
The goal of Buddhism is to stop being "hooked" by both attachments and aversions. Paradoxically, the less we are hooked, the richer our life becomes.
Why is excitement suffering (Buddhism)?
That easy to get into heaven!
