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Posted by Nina
on 6/21/2009, 6:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Secret of Happiness"
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: ####'s sake!!! i'm not thinking about death
: and decay. Why are you trying to portray me
: as some maudlin goth adolescent with black
: fingernails?
:
: i'm just saying that all phenomena are
: subject to certain conditions that make them
: temporary. Wouldn't you rather have
: non-temporal bliss and joy that is innate to
: the mind and accessible to all as our noble
: birth-right?
:
: Why accept second best? Why make do?
:
I don't think I'm "accepting second best", Lian Dao. I like most things being temporary - just as they are. Accepting the temporariness of stuff makes me much happier. It's only when I didn't want to let go of something that I felt all sorts of angst.
Why would I want to look for something that might not be there when I already have such precious and beautiful things in my hand right now? When it's gone...... It's gone. And it's nice to feel a bit of the sting when something I feel is precious is taken away from me...... Reminds me I'm human and still of this world.
Are you trying to lose the enjoyment of what's temporary?
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-Li Daoqun
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