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.
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