[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

[MarshaV]

On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Khoo Hock Aun wrote:

> Khoo:
> 2) Marsha, the quotation in full can be found here.
> http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/dhammapada-01.html. The quote correctly
> applies for the individual, but as I tried to invert, also for the group as
> a whole. What they collectively think and agree to think as the
> norm, manifests as the world we find ourselves in. For instnace, if the rest
> of the world wants to get caught up in a pissing contest, chances are if I
> hang around, I will get caught up in the crossfires. What I make of all the
> piss in the wind is another thing altogether; and I have been in one too
> many to know that to get the best out of it is to stay out of it.


Thank you for the reference Khoo.  I am presently rereading 'In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon', but the Dhammapada looks wonderful.

Marsha

  
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