On 4/29/05, Ian Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >
> >The above specimen of supposed 'wisdom', quoted by Ian (in which the
> >author muses over the fragility of life etc.), is nothing but just
> >another example of a regular, run-of-the-mill sentimental, poetical
> >observation, adorned by beautiful words and syllables.
> >
> >Let's not confuse real wisdom with sentimental slobbering.
> 
> Well, ok.  Maybe the whole thing wasn't completely wise.  But it is wise to
> be aware of impermanence and to see death in life.  It wasn't only
> sentimentality, or so it seems to me.

Being aware of impermanence and seeing death in life are provisory
means leading one to the wisdom, but these means are not to be
confused with wisdom.


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