Sukihotu
There's nothing wrong with the way the body grows old and get sick. It just follows its nature. So it's not the body that causes us suffering, but our own wrong thinking. When we see the right wrongly, there's bound to confusion.
It's like the water of river. It naturally flows down hill. It never flows up hill . That's it nature. If we were to go and stand on the bank of a river, and seeing the water flowing swiftly down its course, foolishly want it to flow back up hill, we would suffer.
We would suffer because of our wrong views, our thinking "against the stream". If we had right view, we would see that the water must flow down hill. Until we realize and accept this fact, we will always be agitated and never find peace of mind.
The river must flow down hill is like our body. It passes through the youth,old age and finally dies. Don't let us go wishing it were otherwise. It's not something we have the power to remedy. Don't go against the stream.
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