XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   >>>>> Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 11/09/2016 3:37 PM, liaM wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 9/11/2016 4:50 AM, Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Really, really, wanting something - and knowing that it's possible -   
   >>>>>>>> means you don't give up until you've found it.   
   >>>>>>>> If we have only one life - surely we have to aim for the highest?   
   >>>>>>>> Otherwise we let ourselves down.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Aim for the highest may not be so simple..  Do you mean    
   Enlightenment"?   
   >>>>>>> That, in fact, imo, is the simplest to achieve, if one is of age to   
   >>>>>>> understand the 4 Noble Truths and follow the way to achieve liberation.   
   >>>>>>> No hocus pocus is needed. One or a few kind teachers, maybe.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> If it's so simple, why don't more people achieve it?   
      
   Most people already know it.   
   Yet they may quite often ignore it.   
      
   Knowing how desire/suffering goes, they go anyhow.   
   One might think they enjoy it, even if they say they don't.   
      
   Being involved, they go all in.   
   Going all in, they forget how things go.   
      
   Round and round they go.   
   When they get tired, they opt out.   
      
   Having forgotten how it went, they begin to seek.   
   Having been given the answer, it's too simple for some.   
   So they don't accept it. Those are the few.   
      
   More of them do achieve it and move on.   
   Some stay stuck in achieving and achieving to no end.   
   Some reach the end and care to share to no end.   
      
   Those who reach the end may end up not posting.   
   They have moved on to some other beginnings.   
   Some stay and post about Taoism, God, or   
   some other stuff they have in mind.   
      
   Two achieve, basically, nothing.   
      
   - ultimately   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)