indeed joe... youth is wasted on youth as the saying goes...merle
Anthony, There's a long history to that question. Socrates said that it is our *passions* that "...keep us from getting a glimpse of the Truth". This is in Plato's PHAEDO (he claimed that older people are usually more wise, because their passions are not always pestering them as they did in their youth, or else they've learned how to set them aside temporarily). I think Buddha taught something very similar, or at least that our off-centeredness is the cause of our suffering, and that our craving make the world seem even less satisfactory to us. But the senses, used when we are awakened, do not lead to faulty interpretations, or actions. We obtain or attain Right Views when we awaken, and not by trying to adopt them. And when we have Right Views authentically, our vision is right, too (but we may still need our eyesight to be corrected, say, to 20-20). The other senses work for the benefit of all beings, too. --Joe > Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > ...you try to understand the world through your sensory organs. But how do > you know if they are correct?
