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   From: kamermx@yahoo.com   
      
   Peter Terpstra wrote:   
   > The Integrity of Emptiness   
   > by   
   > Thanissaro Bhikkhu   
   > © 2006-2011   
   >   
   > For all the subtlety of his teachings, the Buddha had a simple test   
   > for measuring wisdom. You're wise, he said, to the extent that you   
   > can get yourself to do things you don't like doing but know will   
   > result in happiness, and to refrain from things you like doing but   
   > know will result in pain and harm.   
   ...   
   >You can't develop a   
   > throwaway attitude to your actions and their consequences, for if you   
   > do you're throwing away your chances   
   > for a true and unconditional happiness. The skills you need to talk   
   > yourself   
   > into meditating on a cold, dark morning, or into resisting a drink on   
   > a lazy afternoon, are the same ones that will eventually guarantee an   
   > undistorted realization of the highest peace.   
   >   
   > This is how the Buddha's teachings on emptiness encourage you to   
   > exercise wisdom in everything you do.   
   >   
   > http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/integrit   
   ofemptiness.html   
      
      
   Buddha's words plashing plesantly over stones of Thanissaro's understanding   
   :-)   
      
   is alleviation of suffering the end of the matter?   
      
   -k   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)