Great epic stories are the result of very flawed characters committing great acts based on their own personal psychological and emotional delusions and misperceptions.  The greater the flaw, the greater the drama (or comedy).  If an author desires to write a great story then the plot must contain equally great characters possessing at least one major flaw which skews their perception of reality.  Such is the formula for great drama or comedy.

All creation is a drama, the greatest drama in fact.  Everything that happens, everything is the result of a union of separated opposites.  The interaction of opposites creates the drama called life.  And drama is another word for suffering.  And as Buddha said, “Life is suffering.”

But there was another Buddha named Ho Tai.  He saw everything from another perspective.  It is said that when he achieved his own enlightenment, he laughed at everything he saw.  The reason for this is easy to comprehend.  Drama has long been considered the opposite of Comedy, ever since ancient times.  Ho Tai apparently emerged from his enlightenment realizing the underlying stupidity of existence itself, sensing how it has no meaning at all and therefore all actions performed by the ordinary unenlightened are ridiculous in the eyes of God.  Ho Tai was reported to laugh at people working at their jobs and then he would share candy with children to celebrate the sweetness of life.

From one perspective, the activity of life is seen as suffering because it leads nowhere and is ultimately disappointing.

From the opposite perspective, the activity of life is comical because it leads nowhere and is ultimately disappointing.

Either viewpoint is simultaneously faulty and correct.  Life is what it is—an egotistical attempt to exist as separate from God, as though we were the Fallen angel Lucifer himself.  And no matter what perspective you choose to view it, life is ultimately meaningless and pointless.  A Divine Comedy, as Dante wrote.

Life is the most dramatic of all epic Dramas.  It is both sad and funny.

As the philosopher Plotinus wrote, “Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.”

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