--- In [email protected], "spider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "ventouxboy" But why work on being happy? Why not just be?
Isn't that
> what Zen's all about? Peace, Guy.>
>
> Why not work on being happy? What do you have against happiness?
The fact
> that there are a few people on this list whose goal in life is to
be a piece
> of cardboard makes me happy. I chuckle when I consider that there
is someone
> on earth who thinks enlightenment is to have no feelings or
sensations or
> opinions. It makes me happy to know that whenever anyone mentions
that they
> are happy, there are a couple of folks who jump out of the woodwork
to warn
> against being happy. Why not just be? Indeed!
>
> Why don't you commit suicide? Why live? What are you living for?
What is the
> point of your existence? Certainly living so that you can imitate a
wooden
> plank is a waste of resources. A wooden plank has already achieved
the
> realization that you seek. So has a cardboard box.
>
> Kill yourself, and you will achieve the total void that you seek.
You will
> "just be" a decomposing pile, instead of living to become one. In
fact, the
> total nothingness that you strive for is probably what you will
feel when a
> bullet is exploding through your brain. Don't just pretend to be
nothing
> when you can be nothing. Don't just stand a step away from living
when you
> can embrace what you really want. Become one with the compost.
thats alot of hostility. Mack
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