duhkha : duh = disagreeable/painful/bitter, kha = condition (duhkha ~ "chronic frustration")
sukha : su = sweet
ánanda : (the 'objective' of Buddhishm) ectacy, above sukha and duhka.
Look upon the pains of death as natural tensions, is this possible? why not.
We fear death we have a negative attitude of death largely because of social condition. It's what we've been taught.
Vomiting: regarded as disgusting (as children, vomiting, our mothers went "aaahugh")
It's rather the same with death. After all, death is benevolent.
We're afraid of going into very undignified motions (such as pain, crying). We're taught it's not manly to give in to pain.
Consider a cat. When the cat drops off the tree, does it say; "I'm gonna be a real tough cat. I'm gonna be all rigid and stiff"? No. Because it would become a bag of bones.
Lao Tze: Be like water. Nothing is softer. Yet nothing is harder to wear away rocks. Yet get a knife, and try to cut it. It yields completely. Strike it as hard as you like, you will never create a wound. The water triumphs over the hardness of the knife.
Fever boils out the disease. A steel bridge, when built completely, utterly rigid - it would break.
Be worried. And you will not be worried about being worried.
Be afraid. And you will not be afraid about being afraid.
Dish washing. the immense pile of dishes of the past. The immense pile of dishes of the future. But, you will only wash one dish. You can not wash more than one dish. You will only, in your whole life, wash this one dish.
Past and future are illusions.
