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To appreciate happiness, we must know unhappiness

Master Kosen – Published on March 8 – suffering

Question

If we must know unhappiness to appreciate happiness, just as we must
know hatred to appreciate love… must we accept death to
accept life…?






Anonymous

Answer from Master Kosen

That is because your consciousness is polarized. But there is a happiness that is not the opposite of unhappiness, a love that is not the opposite of hatred, and a death that is not the opposite of life.

Kosen


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