Fake Buddha Quote

'Pain is inevitable.Suffering is optional.- Buddha'Analysis by Bodhipaksa ...'.. First, the figure: He’s often known as the “Laughing Buddha,” but he’s not the Buddha — i.e. the historical Buddha, Gautama. ..''.. Then there’s the quote itself. Its origins are obscure, but it seems to come from the 12-step tradition, as does the wonderful Fake Buddha Quote, “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”And since the keynote of the 12-step recovery program is anonymity (as in Alcoholics Anonymous) it’s unlikely we’ll ever know who coined it.The earliest attribution I’ve seen, from 1983 (“The Promise of a New Day: A Book of Daily Meditations,” by Karen Casey and Martha Vanceburg), is to M. Kathleen Casey. I haven’t been able to find out anything about her. Possibly she was related to Karen Casey (her mother, perhaps?) ...''The message itself is very congruent with the Buddha’s teachings. There is a wonderful sutta called the Sallatha Sutta SN 36.6, which points to the distinction between “feelings of pain” and the secondary suffering that arises from our response to that initial pain. ...'Read Bodhipaksa's analysis in full here ...http://fakebuddhaquotes.com/pain-is-inevitable-suffering-is-optional/Read the Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow SN 36.6 here ...www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.006.than.htmlThe Buddha, in the Sallatha Sutta starts off with a question ...' "Monks, an uninstructed run-of-the-mill person feels feelings of pleasure, feelings of pain, feelings of neither-pleasure-nor-pain.A well-instructed disciple of the noble ones also feels feelings of pleasure, feelings of pain, feelings of neither-pleasure-nor-pain.So what difference, what distinction, what distinguishing factor is there between the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones and the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person?" ... '- Posted by CFFong