So if you try to pursue to gain the positive and to deny get rid of the negative you can’t do it.
Because the basis of life is spectrum. All sensations, all feelings, all experience whatsoever is moving through spectrum… You don’t only have the spectrum of colour, you have a spectrum of sound, you have various complex spectra of texture, of smell, of taste and you’re constantly operating through all the possible variations of experience. And it implies that you can’t know one end of the spectrum without also knowing the other.
So try to have light without dark, or dark without light. It can never be solved. So the attempt to solve problems that are basically insoluble… And to work at it through your whole life, that is Dukha. Anicca. Anicca means impermanence.
Every manifestation of life is impermanence and therefore our quest to make things permanent, to straight everything out, to get it fixed, is an impossible and insoluble problem…. Therefore we experience Dukkha.
Atma – Everything is Nothing
