[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Alex Wilding]

Chan Fu wrote:
> Humanity has been through many hard times and
> survived.

"Humanity" is an abstract idea, as empty as they come.

Actual, individual human beings, otoh, (not to mention our less intellectual
brothers and sisters in the animal world) have died of horrible diseases,
starvation, being torn to shreds by armaments and by plain, aboninamble,
cruel torture. (And other things - but you get my point.)

If there is a bright side (like, for instance, my own life so far, which
has, as it happens, been delightful) it is a shallow and hollow one.

AW