Suffering
Suffering (meaning the various self-affects
of unpleasantness, discomfort, pain and so on) self-signals
(happens as self-response to) function failure.
Failure is taken to mean: ‘performing
worse,’ meaning non-attainment (of function completion). Happiness, joy and so on self-signal the
reverse, namely function success. Success
is taken to mean: ‘performing better’ (i.e. as in Darwin/Spencer’s ‘fitter’),
meaning attainment (of function completion). The basic
function of a dynamic bio-system is to survive better. In dynamic bio-systems
that happens by generating (i.e. creating) a ‘better’ (note the comparative)
next (meaning different) step. Thus: ‘The next step (because different) is better, The current one
(because same) is worse.’ The universal
(i.e. Brahman’s) basic function (Sanskrit: dharma) is to generate (i.e.
create) a (local or mundane) step (i.e. a differential ≈ a second). The local
(i.e. Atman’s, as fractal elaboration of the Brahman) basic function
(Sanskrit: dharma) is to generate (i.e. create) a specific (local or mundane)
step (i.e. a specific differential). Suffering is the response to a dynamic bio-system’s (or
Atman’s) failure to complete its basic (or a support) function (i.e. dharma).
Later
Buddhists and whom claimed, for
political reasons, that suffering arises from desire (or craving, possibly
for ignorance (Pali: avidya)) got that one badly wrong! The
self-response (as Guide & Control feed-back affect) of function (i.e.
dharma) completion (because of attainment of the ‘better’), and any function
(i.e. dharma) will do, is moksha (i.e. as release
from the drag (signalled with suffering) of incompletion). The Vedantin
escapists (from the drag/pain of incompletion ≈ samsara), and who believed that moksha is achieved only if and when the sameness
(or non-difference) state of the non-local Brahman is attained, wholly
misunderstood and misrepresented the Brahman’s basic and ever presenting
function (hence need). |