LIFE is a misery or you feel not?

I am a Buddhist. I considered someone who never fails to chant the sutra everyday fully devoted , I am not. At best I will try to keep the Buddha's teaching in mind, if failing to do so, i'll reflect on myself.
In Buddhism, life itself is suffering. Which is why Buddha seek Nirvana to free himself from such miseries & hope to pass down such knowledge to free all sentient beings. But being born as a human is already the 'best' incarnation among all (the animals, beast..etc). Kind of ironic to think about it.
I do not have the best agruement why life is a misery or not. I only believe that since i am born to be human (rather than the lowly beasts) i would & should cherised my life. Since i have to live it, i'll lived it happy and do not regret. I have friends who only thinks that life is suffering, life is hard... Yes no doubt it is but why not think otherwise? If you are 'fated' to live these number of years, live without remorse.

From the Buddha

"As the wise test gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it on a piece of touchstone, so are you to accept my words after examining them and not merely out of respect for me."

~ The Buddha

Karma

"The Buddha's teaching reveals moral justice in an impersonal universal law, the law of Kamma, which reigns over all sentient existence. Kamma means action springing from intention, as bodily deed, speech, and thought. Unwholesome kamma is action rooted in mental states of greed, hatred and delusion; and wholesome kamma, action rooted in mental states of generosity or detachment, goodwill and understanding. The willed actions may fade from memory but they leave subtle imprints on the mind, seeds with the potential to come to fruition. The objective field in which the seeds of kamma ripen is the process of rebirths called samsara.
Life is not an isolated occurence beginning with birth and ending in death. Each single lifespan is part of series of lives having no discoverable beginning in time and continuing on as long as the desire for existence stands intact. Rebirth can take place in various realms. There are not only the familiar realms of human beings and animals, but ranged above we meet heavenly worlds of greater happiness, beauty and power and ranged below infernal worlds of extreme suffering. The cause for rebirth is kamma. Kamma determines the sphere into which rebirth takes place, wholesome actions bringing rebirth in higher forms, unwholesomeactions rebirth in lower forms. After yielding rebirth, kamma continues to operate, governing the endowments and circumstances.
The second level of teaching found in the Dhammapada is to follow this ethical law leading upwards--to inner development, to higher rebirths and to richer experiences of happiness and joy. However, all states of existence in samsara, even the lofty celestial abodes, are lacking in genuine worth: for they are all inherently impermanent, without any lasting substance, and thus, for those who cling to them, potential bases for suffering. The disciple of mature faculties, does not long even for rebirth among the gods. Having understood the intrinsic inadequacy of all conditioned things, his only aspiration is Nibbana, the unconditioned state where there is no more birth, ageing and death, and no more suffering.
The third level of teaching found in the Dhammapada emerges out of this aspiration for final deliverance. The Four Noble Truths provide the framework for this aim. The first truth concerns various forms of suffering, existence itself being impermanent and substanceless, is intrinsically unsatisfactory. The second truth is craving for pleasure and existence which drives us through the round of rebirths, bringing in its trail suffering. The third truth declares that the destruction of craving issues in release from suffering, and the fourth prescribes the means to gain release, the Noble Eightfold Path: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration (Chapter 20)."

INTRODUCTION

DHAMMAPADA

Dhammapada

"Hatred never ceases through hatred. Only through love does it cease." --This and many other beautiful teachings of the Buddha can be found in the Dhammapada. "The way to end suffering is not to increase cravings and desires but to reduce and eliminate them." "The worst of all taints is the taint of ignorance." "Purify the mind." Profound wisdom and messages for a confused world. The Dhammapada, which enshrines he spirit of the Buddha's teachings, is a book for all time, a book to be cherished and loved. May it be a light to your life!
The translator Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita is an Indian monk, meditation teacher and scholar, who is firmly committed to walking the Buddha's path.

What is the Dhammapada

Abstract from the book "Dhammapada";

INTRODUCTION
From ancient times to the present, the Dhammapada has been regarded as the most succinct expression of the Buddha's teaching. In the countries following Theravada Buddhism, it is a guidebook for the everyday life. Even withdrawn contemplatives must possess a copy of the book. Yet the admiration of the Dhammapada has not been confined to followers of Buddhism. Whenever it has become known its aphoristic wisdom and stirring message have won veneration of all.
The son of a king, the Buddha, was born in sixth century B.C. His name was Siddhattha and family name Gotama (Sanskrit: Siddhartha Gautama). Groomed to be heir to the throne, he encountered disturbing facts of suffering and lost all interest in the pleasures and privileges of rulership. One night, in his twenty-ninth year, he left home and became an ascetic, resolved to find the way to deliverance from suffering. For six years he experimented with different religious systems, subjected himself to severe austerities, but found that these practices did not bring him any closer to his goal. Finally, in his thirty-fifth year, sitting in deep meditation beneath the Bodhi tree at Gaya, he attained Supreme Enlightenment and become the Buddha. Thereafter, for forty-five years, he travelled throughout India, proclaiming the truths he had discovered and founding an order of monks and nuns to carry on his message. At the age of eighty, after a long and fruitful life, he passed away peacefully in Kusinara, surrounded by a large number of disciples.
To his followers, the Buddha is neither a god, a divine incarnation, nor a prophet bearing a message of divine revelation, but one who has reached the highest spiritual attainment, Supreme Enlightenment (Bodhi). He is a world teacher who, out of compassion, points out the way to Nibbana, (Sanskrit: Nirvana), final release from suffering. His teaching, known as the Dhamma, offers a body of instructions explaining the true nature of existence and showing the path that leads to liberation. Free from all dogmas and inscrutable claims to authority, the Dhamma is founded upon Buddha's own realization of reality, and leads one who practices it to that excellence.
In its twenty-six chapters, Dhammapada spans multiple aspects of the Buddha's teaching, offering a variety of standpoints from which to gain a glimspe into the heart of Dhamma-Truth. The inspirational verses on the fundamentals of the Dhamma are meant to be used as a basis for personal edification and instruction. As water, though one in essence, assumes different shapes due to the vessels into which it is poured, so the Dhamma of liberation takes in different forms in response to the needs of the beings to be taught. This diversity is evident in the verses of Dhammapada...

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