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---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:52:26 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Why the quality of the modern world is no good. > >> >> >> Dan: >> I don't know... there are different kinds of desire. Desire that my >> children and grandchildren have a good life is more about others (in a SOM >> sense) than desire to feed my face a cheeseburger. >> >> Furthermore I think it is unproductive to say desire is the root of all >> suffering. We all desire a better life -- good food to eat, a roof over our >> head, a place in the world -- for our own self as well as for those we love. >> There is nothing wrong with that. >> > >Juan Carlos: > Darn that Siddhartha! He's been leading us astray all this time. Dan: Oh no I certainly didn't mean to imply that! I'm pretty sure Siddhartha discovered for himself that living a life void of desire was not the middle way. It was in fact extreme. Rather, what I was getting at is that there are positive desires and negative desires. I think the Buddha might agree: it's not a feeling of satisfaction, it's the positive or negative consequences that arise from desire that provide a demarcation point. > > > >Dan: >> Suffering drives evolution. Without suffering the world might well be but a >> ball of primordial slime (though according to some that might be an >> improvement over the modern world). >> > >Juan Carlos: > So you could say something similar to Buddha but ending on a more positive > note - Suffering holds the key to all desire. I like that. I was > thinking something along these lines this morning in my garden, that the > roots grow deepest when they have to really strain for the water in the > ground. Dan: Yes that's a great analogy. > > > >> >> Thanks for reading, >> > > > Hey, thanks for writing. I have really appreciated your contributions > lately Dan. Dan: Why thank you. That's good of you to say. I've enjoyed your posts as well. Dan _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
