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Posted by Steve on 5/7/2008, 8:03 pm, in reply to "With Friends like you who needs an enema?"
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: Nothing new there. Ennui gas has been
: around
: for thousands of years, emitted from the
: rear ends of countless gurus, prophets,
: priests, masters, and gods.
:
: It goes something like this:
:
: "I know something you don't know. Your
: pleasures and happiness are illusions.
: There's something really really pleasurable
: and happy out there, but you don't see it
: because you're not enlightened.
:
: To be enlightened, you have to do things and
: work hard. You have to leave everything you
: know behind. What you've been doing up
: until now has been wrong.
:
: But--if you get very sick or very old or
: very tired--or say you develop Alzheimer's
: Disease or move somewhere where there are no
: books, Internet, gurus, prophets, priests,
: or masters--you're out of luck. There's no
: hope that you'll ever be enlightened or know
: happiness, because you won't know what to
: do."
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: Friends?,
:
: I find your words depressing. I hope you are
: happy.
:
: Butch
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Butch,
I've always honored and respected your honesty, something you may have found is not always honored and respected on these here Internets. lol.
What is it that you find depressing, friend?
Steve
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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