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1.
There is
distress
2.
It is caused by
an unresolved problem
3.
Distress ends
4.
By solving the
problem
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For distress read:
stress overload
For stress read:
arousal, turbulence, random motion: felt as heat; interpreted as
dissatisfaction: self-signalled by the internal Guide & Control System
as the high-level (i.e. user friendly) communications media of sorrow,
suffering, pain, ill and so on.
For cause read: one or
more conditions generating ‘arising’ or emergence.
For unresolved problem
read: the Sakya Buddha’s ‘transience’ and ‘dependence’ (i.e. un-freedom),
indeed any problem (i.e. survival hitch), indeed, samsara as a whole.
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1.
A Buddha
emerges (as Bodhisattva)
2.
He (or
she) is caused by distress
3.
A Buddha
demerges
4.
Having
ended distress
Lord Ganesh
Remover of
Obstacles
Lord
Ganesh is the Hindu high-level communication medium (i.e. icon) version of
the universal Problem Solving Function. It is interesting to note that
legend has it that Maya, the mother of Siddartha, was touched (impregnated)
by an elephant’s trunk. Ganesh, of course, got his elephant’s head courtesy
of his drunken father Shiva.
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A Bodhisattva (as
potential Buddha) emerges because of distress caused by an unresolved
problem.
To solve the problem the
Bodhisattva must become fully aroused, awakened, engaged and so on.
If and when the problem
is fully, completely, perfectly resolved (and which is described by some
samma-sambodhi), the Bodhisattva has morphed as a sam-Buddha.
In short, a Buddha is a
problem solver (who thereby eliminates distress).
Problem solving releases
the energy invested in its resolution. The energy surge (or backflow) is
experienced as enlightenment (i.e. as an increase in lightness or decrease
in heaviness). The energy surge is interpreted-felt as full and complete
satisfaction or fulfilment, then signalled-felt as happiness, joy, ecstatic
rapture, depending on the amount of energy released.
When the energy surge
(and happiness) has abated, and since there is no stress overload in the
system, the system comes to (a relative) rest, peace and so on, and “there
is nothing more to be done”.
@ rest ≈ nirvana,
and of which there are 3 kinds
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