Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: getting over it... - (nf) Message-ID: <1663@randvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 22:21:31 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1663 Posted: Tue Jan 31 22:21:31 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:41:23 EST References: <1379@pur-ee.UUCP>, <1651@utcsstat.UUCP>, <915@proper.UUCP>, <3482@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 19 -------- 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