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Posted by rat on 11/6/2009, 7:41 am, in reply to "Re: here's a nearly non-philosophical one for Garr"
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Hi Gar
Re: “Was it pleasure or contentment?”
I think the classical daoists were after what we might call a nearly unshakable sense of well-being. I experienced this phenomenon during war; combat was not a pleasure as such, and yet there was a sense of pleasure in recognizing that I was not worrying very much despite being nearly killed more than a handful of times.
ciao,
rat
--Previous Message--
: Greetings rat,
:
: It seems to me rat that the highest priority
: in my metal processor is to produce
: chemicals that give me pleasure. But it also
: seems what goes up must come down so gar
: prefers contentment.
:
: Wikipedia;
:
: "The source of all mentally created
: dissatisfactions appears to stem from the
: ability to compare and contrast experiences
: and find reality as one is living it to be
: less than ideal.[citation needed] The
: solution is to seek out ways to either make
: experienced reality conform to the ideal or
: to lower expectations to the level of the
: experienced.[citation needed] When one can
: live in the moment with expectations in
: harmony with experiences one has achieved
: the greatest mental contentment
: possible.[citation needed] Variants of this
: pursuit are found in all religions and
: manifest in many forms of meditation and
: prayerful devotions."
:
: I did ask myself this morning why i was
: smiling looking at some green moss in the
: sunlight. Was it pleasure or contentment?
:
: Beats me! Macht Nichts!
:
: in peace,
: gar
:
: P.S. Truth seems to be in a state of flux.
:
: Why do some die and some live? The best
: fitted to their circumstances seem to
: survive.
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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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