" Superficial observation of the sense world might lead you to believe that people’s problems are different, but if you check more deeply, you will see that fundamentally, they are the same. What makes people’s problems appear unique is their different interpretation of their experiences. "
–Lama Thubten Yeshe.
What I really take from this quote of the great teacher Lama Yeshe is that we suffer more from our perception than from the reality of our experiences. Each person has a commonality in the nature of their suffering though individually they feel unique.
If I had a carrot up my butt and you had a carrot up your butt, our individual interpretation of this could be completely differant, but fundementally we both have carrots up our butts. without any disrespect I personally would not enjoy a carrot up my butt, butt its how you interpret the exsperience, Nice photo
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