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This is quite a common misunderstanding. The assertion made by the Buddha was that "Birth is dukkha*, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are dukkha; association with the unbeloved is dukkha; separation from the loved is dukkha; not getting what is wanted is dukkha."I would submit that Buddhism has it wrong, Life is not suffering.
4'33" was a worthless piece of crap, foisted on the listening public as art, which it was not. It had nothing to do with Buddhism, but was pure nihilism at it's worst. If that was an expression of Cage's understanding of Zen, then he has no understanding at all. At best he is a greedy Charlatan.Perhaps help to explain works like 4'33" and other avant-garde pieces of his.