Old 07-14-2012, 05:46 AM
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freshstart57
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I am mulling over this paradox:
AVRT identifies even wanting the desire to be removed as AV, because it suggests self-doubt about abstinence in the presence of desire. Or, again, The desire to be free of cravings is AV. Stating a preference for no-desire over desire is AV. Really?

The Buddha said that all desire is suffering, but not even the most diligent scholar would struggle to teach that the desire to be free of suffering leads to suffering. Distinction is made between skillful and unskillful desire because without this distinction, there is no right effort, no right thought, no right act. The state of no-desire is the ultimate goal, and called Nirvana, the end of suffering. There is no self doubt in this desire at all.

More Zen:
If Ah had my druthers,
Ah druther have my druthers
Than anything else I know.

Ok, Ok, I'll say it. If Ah didn't have mah druthers, what then?
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