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   From: lrudolph@panix.com   
      
   brian mitchell writes:   
      
   > I reject your extreme yoking of suffering to awakening. People can have very   
   different casts of mind   
   > and different skillful attributes. Yes, a catastrophic psychic shock can   
   arrest the mad mind, but so   
   > can other things. And I reject your characterisation of self/ego as a   
   disease, seeing it more as a   
   > natural and necessary pre-metamorphic (chrysalis) stage in the development   
   of the mind   
      
   Not to disagree with you (for I don't), but simply   
   to provide a counter-image to the--possibly--over-   
   sweet "butterfly" some readers may imagine reading   
   "chrysalis", I offer "maggot"; as in "Maggot   
   Debridement Therapy", q.v.   
      
   Lee Rudolph (or perhaps "Debride Stripped Bare by Her   
   Bachelors, Even")   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)