PSY 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Impermanence, Buddhist Philosophy, Dukkha

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 181
• Professor: C H R I S T O P H E R N I E M I E C

Document Summary

According to buddhism, human suffering exists and it characterize our existence. The good news of buddhism: there is a solution to the problem of suffering. Suffering has to be solved at the level of consciousness, and it can be solved only through personal change (not through material gains) Your suffering is a result of your own activity, and if you cease the activity on which your suffering is founded, joy and happiness will be available to you. Arose during the time of the upanishads when hinduism reigned supreme in the. Whereas hinduism argued for the existence of absolute beings (gods), buddhisms argued for no absolute being. In buddhism, there is no ultimate truth, being, or entity permanently exists. If gods exist, then they can solve our suffering; so if no gods exist, then only we can solve our suffering. According to buddhism, even if gods do exist, they can"t solve human suffering.