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ISFJ
7Essential sorrow đđ
"Essential sorrow" is a term youâll hear most in Buddhist philosophy and in some existential writing. Itâs not about having a bad day or grieving a specific loss. Why is it called âessentialâ? Because it isnât caused by a mistake you made or a problem you can fix. Itâs baked into the conditions: being mortal, conscious, and attached. You donât cure it like a cold. You relate to it. Many artists, mystics, and therapists argue that essential sorrow is what gives joy its contrast and compassion its depth. You canât love deeply without sensing how temporary and fragile it all is. Rilke called it âthe heaviness we carry because weâre deep.â Itâs the price of caring, and the proof that you do. Think of it less like depression and more like gravity. You donât fight gravity, you learn to walk, dance, and build architecture with it. Video: Rolling Stone interview with RM of BTS
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4There are growing pains, and there are teaching pains. Both are essential, because ignorance is a part of each and all of us when we are born, and the growing pain is felt when a piece of us dies, an ignorant piece. The teaching pain happens because the ignorance of the student hates the wisdom of the teacher and attacks that teacher for that wisdom, attempting to kill the wisdom. If the wisdom survives the attack, then the student learns that, that wisdom is better than the ignorance that attacked it, so that the student then abides by that wisdom âșïž.
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