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Re: Is suffering the fire that purifies us?
Is suffering necessary? Yes. But then, so is compassion. Both are necessary. The problem is we dislike one, and like the other. But you can't have one without the other. Without suffering, there can … (View Post)
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Re: Is Materialism depressing?
I took a brief philosophical detour into materialism once-- but found it insufficient for purely ontological reasons. The problem with all dualistic ontological models is that they carve the world in… (View Post)
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Re: Sayings
"It happened once, and so it will be forever." from Wings of Desire (View Post)
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Re: Poems
Fresh haiku from Sunday morning--very happy with this one: gathered on the tip of each pine needle spring dew (View Post)
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Re: Poems
A new haiku I wrote early this morning at the monastery: out of spring mist black branches & peach blossoms (View Post)1