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Michael Jackson
Ingrown toenails
Bits of plastic in your Chinese takeaway
Plastic dishes that melt when you microwave them.
Paper dishes that get soggy when you microwave them.
Cold food.
Seeing Michael Jackson’s ingrown toenails, while eating Chinese takeout with bits of plastic in it.
The Buddhists may just have it right: desire. Extinguish desire and you extinguish suffering (you may also extinguish a good deal of joy, but that’s another issue).
Extinguish the desire to live??
Carrot Top Commericals.
MUST…SUPRESS…URGE…TO…SHOOT…TV…
Hell is other people.
Mr. A. Nemo, didn’t Sarte say that?
Yes he did. Sorry if it looked like I as trying to pass it of as my own. I thought it was popular enough that italics would suffice.
Mr. A. Nemo-Actually I was curious, I was pretty sure he said that, but I wasn’t positive.
The other half of me thought it was Voltaire (for some strange reason)
Negative on that.
Desire, as such, isn’t the root of suffering in the forms of Buddhism I’ve a slippery grasp on. Rather, certain forms of desire–the clinging kind that would crush a flower in fear of it slipping away, the kind that turns love to jealousy and possessiveness (and thus strangles love away), and so on–are expressions of it, and lead to more of it. But that’s not the root of it.
The root of suffering is avidya, nescience, lack of awareness. In other words, it is–and this should really resonate for anyone who takes the vision statement of the Straight Dope at all seriously–ignorance. Not desire itself.
Shouldn’t this be in IMHO? I mean, do you have a point to debate?
women
Threads posted in the wrong forum.
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Moving to IMHO
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To me, that kind of desire is what I would call: greed.
And it really is the source of a lot of people’s unhappiness, due to their being slaves of that greed. (them? their? hope that’s right)
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna, Precious Garland
Birth. For both parties.
My mother in law causes me much pain, suffering and mental anguish. No amount of playing nice on my part works. I give up.
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Mammie–
re: your mother in law–you may have hit upon the precise means by which to end the problems you have with her. Once you make the decision that you aren’t responsible for her happiness, that it isn’t your job to fix her problems, then you are free. When she recognizes that you aren’t playing the game any more, she will have to stop, too. So, really, ‘giving up’ is the perfect thing to do. (this is all theoretical and ad lib here; don’t come after me if it doesn’t work out. Still, it might.)
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