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Sep. 28th, 2004 10:10 pmAnother note on the bit about desire...
well, first off, is desire what I'm talking about? On tradition posits it as "discontent" -- but what a silly inside out way to put it. I don't want to talk about a lack of contentment, I want to talk the creative aspect of this driving, wanting striving sense... The kind of thing that tends to get a pretty bum rap from the distances oneself from the world in contemplation set...
And I want to talk about the inextricable link between desire and pain. Which I suppose means I'm going to sit down and review standard Buddhist terminology in English... because I'm not talking about attachment and suffering, but I'll have to not talk about that in an informed manner. (Which probably means talking about it, too.) I want to talk about the process by which dealing with pain can alienate us from our own desires, because there's something really big in there, some way in which they are inextricably linked. That it can hurt so much is exactly why it's important.
Oh, and then the flip side, of dealing with one's desires, recognizing them, honing them and refining them when there is a *lack* of opposition to work against.
Or then again, the quarter starts tomorrow, and maybe I'll get distracted. La la la. I should decide which dictionaries get lugged in with me.
well, first off, is desire what I'm talking about? On tradition posits it as "discontent" -- but what a silly inside out way to put it. I don't want to talk about a lack of contentment, I want to talk the creative aspect of this driving, wanting striving sense... The kind of thing that tends to get a pretty bum rap from the distances oneself from the world in contemplation set...
And I want to talk about the inextricable link between desire and pain. Which I suppose means I'm going to sit down and review standard Buddhist terminology in English... because I'm not talking about attachment and suffering, but I'll have to not talk about that in an informed manner. (Which probably means talking about it, too.) I want to talk about the process by which dealing with pain can alienate us from our own desires, because there's something really big in there, some way in which they are inextricably linked. That it can hurt so much is exactly why it's important.
Oh, and then the flip side, of dealing with one's desires, recognizing them, honing them and refining them when there is a *lack* of opposition to work against.
Or then again, the quarter starts tomorrow, and maybe I'll get distracted. La la la. I should decide which dictionaries get lugged in with me.
