You Suffer But Why? Pt. 3 Dept.

For not-so-constant readers of this blog, parts one and twoof this discussion were all about Buddhism's four "noble truths". No, no, don't run off on me now; I'm not here to sell you flowers or pamphlets. This is more about looking at some common-sense advice that sounds like a greeting card, but finding the harder and wormier truth inside it.

Precept three's been phrased a number of different ways, but they mostly go like this: there's a way out of suffering, and it involves letting go of at...