--- Vaj wrote: > > Gillam wrote: > > > --- Vaj wrote: > >> > >> In this case the "poison" is more metaphorical than actual. > >> > > Ah. There's physical reality, and there are the beliefs about it. > > Like that? > > I'm sorry, I'm not sure I follow you. Are you asking if the metaphor > extends to the physical? If so, yes it would.
I may be lost, too. I was thinking your reference to poison, being metaphorical, means the poison exists in our beliefs about this event or that, and is not inherent to the thing itself. A variation on your emphasis of proper view, if you will. > Do you have a predominance of bitter-sweetness in your life you're > grappling with? Isn't that pretty much a description of life as a whole? Everywhere I look, in my life or that of my friends, people are suffering and happy in turns, or simultaneously. So many have great richness in some area and great lack in another. The arts are an especially rich source of sweet suffering. Or maybe I'm listening to too much opera, and seeing too many heavy movies. But artists seem to revel in mixing beauty and pain. I figured that was not just an artist's trick, but a reflection of life. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
