Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: STRESSED OUT, best song of 2015? (video)

Sunday, November 1, 2015

STRESSED OUT, best song of 2015? (video)

Twenty One Pilots; Genius.com; CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Twenty One Pilots got famous with "Tear in My Heart" (official twentyonepilots.com).

It's tough being animated

(Fueled by Ramen) "Stressed Out" by Josh and Tyler as Twenty One Pilots, a music video from the album Blurryface (iTunes) available now.

LYRICS (Genius)

I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard
I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words
I wish I found some chords in an order that is new
I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang

I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink
But now I'm insecure, and I care what people think

My name's Blurryface and I care what you think
My name's Blurryface and I care what you think

[CHORUS]

It's tough being a kid.

Wish we could turn back time to the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out
Wish we could turn back time to the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out

Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young
How come I'm never able to identify where it's coming from?
I'd make a candle out of it, if I ever found it
Try to sell it, never sell out of it, I'd probably only sell one
Give it to my brother, cause we have the same nose, same clothes, home grown, a stone's throw from creek we used to roam
But it would remind us of when nothing really mattered
Out of student loans and tree house homes, we all would take the latter [ladder (lol)]

My name's Blurryface and I care what you think
My name's Blurryface and I care what you think

(JimKim) Cursing my government...she's my carver or my "karma"?

See our "Emotional Roadshow."

Wish we could turn back time to the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out
Wish we could turn back time to the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out

Used to play pretend, give each other different names, we would build a rocket ship, and then we'd fly it far away
Used to dream of outer space, but now they're laughing at our face singing, "Wake up, you need to make money!" yeah
Used to dream of outer space, but now they're laughing at our face singing, "Wake up, you need to make money!" yeah

Wish we could turn back time to the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out
Wish we could turn back time to the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out

It's tough being a toddler.

We used to play pretend, used to play pretend, money
We used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
Used to play pretend, used to play pretend, money
We used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money

Used to play pretend, give each other different names, we would build a rocket ship, and then we'd fly it far away
Used to dream of outer space, but now they're laughing at our face saying, "Wake up, you need to make money!" yeah

What is "stressed out"?
Ven. Nyanatiloka edited by Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist Dictionary (Ven. Nyanatiloka)

(1) "pain" or painful feeling, which may be bodily or mental. (See sensation, vedanā).

(2) "Stress (distress and eustress), disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, suffering, ill, woe, misery. As the first of the Four Noble Truths (sacca) and the second of the Three Marks or Characteristics of Existence (ti-lakkhana).

Existence in the world makes me cry.

The Buddhist term dukkha is not limited to painful experience as under (1), but refers to the unsatisfactory nature and the general insecurity of ALL conditioned existence and phenomena which, on account of their impermanence, are all liable to disappointment, pain, and suffering -- and this includes also pleasurable experience.

Hence "unsatisfactoriness" (lack of fulfillment, dissatisfaction, lack of an ability to find fulfillment in phenomenal things and planes of rebirth) or "liability to suffering" would be more adequate translations of the term, if not for stylistic reasons.

Therefore, the first noble truth does not deny the existence of pleasurable experience, as is often wrongly assumed. This is illustrated by the following Buddhist texts:

Ahh, that's it!

"Seeking satisfaction in the world, followers, I had pursued my own way. That satisfaction in the world I found. Insofar as satisfaction exists in the world, I have well perceived it by wisdom.

"Seeking for misery in the world, followers, I had pursued my own way. That misery in the world I found. Insofar as misery exists in the world, I have well perceived it by wisdom.

"Seeking for an escape from the world, followers, I had pursued my own way. That escape from the world I found. Insofar as an escape from the world exists, I have well perceived it by wisdom" (A.iii.105).

Definition

Wisdom Quarterly and AccessToInsight.org

Dukkha means not getting what I want and getting what I don't want...and no fulfillment.

What is the Buddha's definition of stress, suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or dukkha? "Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are dukkha; association with the unloved is dukkha; separation from the loved is dukkha; not getting what one wants is dukkha. In short, the Five Aggregates of Clinging are dukkha" (SN 56.11).

What's "dukkha"?

NOTE: No single English word adequately captures the full depth, range, and subtlety of the crucial Pali language term dukkha. Over the years, many translations of the word have been used ("stress," "unsatisfactoriness," "suffering," "disappointment," etc.) Each has its own advantages in a given context, but it also has its shortcomings.

There is value in not letting oneself get too comfortable with ANY one particular translation of the word, since the entire thrust of Buddhist practice is the broadening and deepening of one's understanding of dukkha until its roots are finally exposed and eradicated once and for all.

A helpful rule of thumb: As soon as you think you've found the single best translation for the word, think again. For no matter how we describe dukkha, it is actually always deeper, subtler, and more unsatisfactory than that. More

Why do we stay?

"If there were no satisfaction to be found in the world, beings would not be attached to the world....

"If there were no misery to be found in the world, beings would not be repelled by the world....

"If there were no escape from the world, beings could not escape therefrom" (A.iii.106)."