[Buddha-l] What are the "joys of living"?

[Timothy Smith]

Thanks, Jim.  One needs a gentle reminder now and then in these too  
contentious times.  Reminds me of a great soliloquy from Antigone....

"For he who thinks that he alone is wise, and that in speech and  
thought he hath no equal;  such a man, when laid open to public view,  
will be found empty."

I think Sophocles was right on both counts of emptiness.



Timothy Smith
Wheelwright Associates
www.wheelwrightassoc.com

On Jun 24, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Jim Peavler wrote:

>
> It is my personal belief that when a single person becomes the  
> final arbiter of truth and knows absolutely what is right and what  
> is wrong, what correct and incorrect, what is permissible and not  
> permissible, who is good and who is a slacker -- it is my personal  
> belief, that we have left the realm of ideas and discussion and  
> have entered the realm of proselytizing, doctrine and dogma.
>
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