Buddha vs. Hurston

[amarantnrave]

Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occassion for the prisoner to be released, but the householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. Even into the paws of a tiger, he will jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who

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[rustyspell]

I agree with Mel. I used to be more about the absence of desire and all that purity stuff back in my early days, and it (a) wasn't as fun and (b) a little annoying to others. Turns out that kind of philosophy just sounds good on paper. Sure, you can reach these really cool transcendental states if you try hard enough (I used to deny myself scratching itches as an excersise), but they're really not worth it. The purity of the nothingness you can reach isn't as cool as reaching superstates of somethingness. Says me.