Think Outside the Ruts
March 26, 2022
There’s a strange passage in the Canon where the Buddha talks about how we take the potential for a form, feeling, perception, fabrication, or consciousness, and we fabricate it into an actual aggregate of form, feeling, etc., for the sake of having that aggregate. It’s expressed in a strange way in the Pali, but the basic message is: All our experience is for the sake of something. It’s purposeful. This is why we have questions about what the meaning of life is, hoping that somehow the “for the sake of” can be determined. Otherwise, we’re pretty much making stabs in the dark, making things up as we go along, trying to figure out what will make us happy
