Not What You Think | October 13, 2014
The early teachings deconstruct many
habitual ways of being and seeing. We think we’re permanent, but we’re
not. We think that by craving things we’ll find happiness, but we won’t.
One after another the Buddha challenges our established views, our ways
of constructing our version of the world, and takes them apart: you
think it’s one way but it’s not; you want an answer, but the problem is
your very wanting of an answer.
- Henry Shukman, “The Unfamiliar Familiar”
