Wednesday, 25 November 2009
"What the Buddha actually suggested is that it is the avoidance of the elusiveness of the object of desire that is the origin of suffering. The problem is not desire: it is clinging to, or craving, a particular outcome, one in which there is no remainder, in which the object is completely under our power."
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There is a remainder left over after the division of you driving away in your mother's mini van and me walking up Congress Street in the late afternoon.
I loved long division in second or third grade- the tidy columns of numbers making their way down the page to their clean, inevitable conclusion. I lost a little faith when we started to find remainders at the end of our work. It just didn't seem right to me that a correct answer could be split and messy. I sometimes wrote the wrong answer just to make it whole.
I want to know what it consists of, this lump of feeling that migrates around my body.
What do we do with what is leftover? How do we know whether a separation is right when it is neither tidy nor whole?
I have no idea who wrote this.
Really, you didn't write that? I read it all that long time ago, before you put your "I have no idea" comment on which I'm just coming upon now, and I assumed "Green" was You. It's beautiful; it sounds so much like you
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