Life is Traumatic : Buddha’s 1st Noble Truth in 2023

Monk Enō
2 min readMar 31, 2023

If the Buddha was was walking around now, he would have said; ‘Life is Traumatic’ instead of “Life is Dukkha”. For context please see this previous post.

Everyone grows up through some sort of trauma, it is the human condition. Some trauma is more difficult to deal with than others, but any trauma can be turned into a mountain. I witnessed this many times during my days…

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Monk Enō

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