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From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: getting over it... - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 22:21:31 EST
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Laura Creighton says:

>                                         ... The problem is *not* that
>   "they did not get X which they wanted", the problem is that they wanted
>   X in the first place to such an extent that not-X would put them into a
>   state of pain. Unfortunately, nobody can fiddle with somebody else's
>   insides to make them become less attatched to the world as-they-would-like
>   it. This one is one that everybody has to do for themselves. ...

This is precisely the Buddhist attitude; developing a state of `non-at-
tachment' is considered essential to enlightenment, for to the Buddhist
it is attachment (or `desire') that causes all suffering, and is at the
root of the delusion (or `ignorance') that keeps us from enlightenment.

Sure you aren't Buddhist, Laura?                :-)

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall