Looking urself from an unbiased view

I found quite an interesting book during my voluntary work in SABS temple at Wesak Day. The way who the book is written strike me profoundly (though I didn't finish the book...). The book was entitled "the four Noble truth.

But before that, I need to clarify one point. I am not a staunch Buddhist as you guys might think. I might consider myself as a skeptic, or even an atheist. Strictly speaking, I didn't consider myself as a follower of any religion.

And maybe because of that I was not shackled by any religion's bias . Only because of that I can view other religions from an unbiased point of view. It might be ok for me to glance through the verses of Quran and Bible without any bias. I would rather view religions as a researcher or student view, rather as a believer. Regardless of existence of god, I believed that there are wisdoms inside every religion that we should study.

And if that so some people might ask me why am I joining the dharma talk almost every Sunday and participated in certain activities of Buddhism...

True is, I viewed Buddhism as a way to live, not as a religion. And while listening to the talks, I might gain something which might prove useful in my life. Dharma talk is not about something religion term- sophisticated stuff, it was just something related to our daily life such as how to relieve stress.

I might not know how this karma thingy works, but at least I know something useful throughout the session.

Ok, back to the topic. (if this post is too religious kindly let me know so that I will do sth to this.)

The book talks about suffering....

Suffering?

Yep, it is quite some sophisticated stuff. Suffering is not defined as extreme suffer such as you are smacked by a 10000tonne stuff, or extreme tragic fate. It is about impermanence, unsatisfactoriness that we might deal in our daily life.

For example, " I think I get fat, I need to diet again," by a miss yuin yi that had just finished her KFC. She is not satisfied, then she is suffering...

.............???????( even i get confused)

And most of us tend to get angry or sad because we tend to associate the unsatisfactoriness with themselves. For example, we keep to say that sorrow is our sorrow, problem is my problem etc. However is that any difference between your sadness and other sadness? Is Mr. A feeling of sadness differs? No, it's the same.

And by knowing that you can see sadness not as your own, and then only you will acknowledge it better, from a third eye view when you can see your problem clearly...

And suddenly I had an "weird" idea. Can people view themselves as others, or simply speaking, can people view themselves from an unbiased view?

Try an example. You're dumped by your girlfriend and out of anger you smacked her to unconscious. You might justify your act by saying "she being unfaithful to me, and she deserve it etc.

Even though from third point of view, you're just a guy that is being unsatisfied and childish. But will you think of sth like that?

No...most probably......and you will come out with lots of reason to justify your own action.

You might be thinking I do this because of etc etc even though from unbiased view you are just being selfish.

Believe me, it is hard to do "looking urself from unbiased view" because we are often restricted by the frame "I"

But if we can do that, we might attain some invaluable wisdoms and knowledge about life, as well as a confidence of your own act and knowledge in every moment.

This is the concept of "non-self"

Hope you can correct me if any details mistake and it is not religious post despite the word "buddhism" it is only a philosophical point of view.

ZZZZZZ I still have much to learn.....
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