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

[Mike Austin]

In message <44A02C9F.7010906 at xs4all.nl>, Erik Hoogcarspel 
<jehms at xs4all.nl> writes

>Dear Benito,
>you keep saying that the Buddha taught this or that, but did you ever 
>bother to find out what it's all  about? Lust is  not the experience 
>itself, but the way peple react to experiences. You can check this by 
>doing vipassana. You may experience that at certain moments your mind 
>lets go of experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant. This is absence 
>of lust, suppression is not absence, it's just another way of keeping 
>present. You can take a beautiful lady in your arms if only you put her 
>down at the other side of the pool.

Stamping on a weed is suppression. Destroying the seeds from which the 
weed grows is, I think, what Benito is suggesting. And I think that is 
what the Buddha taught - remove the causes.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin