[MD] Why the quality of the modern world is no good.

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

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> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:52:26 -0700
> From: ridgecoyote at gmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Why the quality of the modern world is no good.
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>> Dan:
>> I don't know... there are different kinds of desire. Desire that my
>> children and grandchildren have a good life is more about others (in a SOM
>> sense) than desire to feed my face a cheeseburger.
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>> Furthermore I think it is unproductive to say desire is the root of all
>> suffering. We all desire a better life -- good food to eat, a roof over our
>> head, a place in the world -- for our own self as well as for those we love.
>> There is nothing wrong with that.
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>Juan Carlos:
> Darn that Siddhartha! He's been leading us astray all this time.

Dan:
Oh no I certainly didn't mean to imply that! I'm pretty sure Siddhartha discovered for himself that living a life void of desire was not the middle way. It was in fact extreme.
 
Rather, what I was getting at is that there are positive desires and negative desires. I think the Buddha might agree: it's not a feeling of satisfaction, it's the positive or negative consequences that arise from desire that provide a demarcation point.

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>Dan:
>> Suffering drives evolution. Without suffering the world might well be but a
>> ball of primordial slime (though according to some that might be an
>> improvement over the modern world).
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>Juan Carlos:
> So you could say something similar to Buddha but ending on a more positive
> note - Suffering holds the key to all desire. I like that. I was
> thinking something along these lines this morning in my garden, that the
> roots grow deepest when they have to really strain for the water in the
> ground.

Dan:
Yes that's a great analogy. 

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>> Thanks for reading,
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> Hey, thanks for writing. I have really appreciated your contributions
> lately Dan.
 
Dan:
Why thank you. That's good of you to say. I've enjoyed your posts as well.
 
Dan
 
 
 
 

 
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