Possible explanations, butvinasp wrote:Hi Mike,
"It it not that I do not know and see suffering, Kassapa. I know suffering, I see suffering."
My interpretation of this is that it can be understood in two ways.
!. The Buddha remembers what suffering is like, from his life before
his awakening.
2. The Buddha knows and sees suffering in other people, almost everyone
that he encounters - including Kassapa.
Regards, Vincent.
3. The Buddha is still suffering.
You know he said, old age is suffering. The BUddha still had to die. Dying is suffering. It may all be bodily suffering and not mental, but it is still suffering and it arose from the same process of dependent origination.