Joe,
Secure? Good luck with that project... Marsha On Dec 19, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Joseph Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi MarshaV and All, > > I can't relate to a bottomless craving. IMHO In DQ/SQ metaphysics the > indefinable is present. For variety Evolution in existence seems a more > secure approach than thirst. I can experience the indefinable. > Communicating that experience follows the metaphysical structure of DQ/SQ. > > Joe > > > On 12/19/12 9:14 AM, "MarshaV" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Suffering >> >> --- >> "What Is the Cause of Social Dukkha? >> >> "According to Shakyamuni, the cause of our suffering is _tanha_, usually >> translated as "craving" but more literally as "thirst." Nothing we drink can >> ever assuage our tanha, because that thirst is due to an emptiness at the >> core >> of our being. It is as if that core were a bottomless pit, something like >> the >> black hole that astronomers believe lie at the center of most galaxies. No >> matter how much we try to fill up our own black hole with this or that, >> everything is swallowed up and disappears into it. >> >> "It is bottomless because our sense of self is an ungroundable construct. >> Notice, however, the second noble truth does not identify our problem as >> groundlessness. The problem is "thirst". --- not the emptiness at the core >> of >> our being but our incessant efforts to fill that hole up, because we >> _experience_ it as a sense of lack that must be filled up. The problem is >> not >> that I am unreal but that I keep trying to make myself real in ways that >> never >> work. This implies there might be another way to experience our >> groundlessness." >> 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/md/archives.html > > > 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/md/archives.html 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/md/archives.html
