[Buddha-l] The arrow: its removal and examination

David Kotschessa meindzai at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 10:40:14 MDT 2007


--- Jackhat1 at aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 6/26/2007 11:00:41 A.M. Central
> Daylight Time,  
> curt at cola.iges.org writes:
> 
> 
> "We  do wrong only out of ignorance." That
> paraphrase of Socrates still 
> leaves  three words unused!
> 
> 
> 
> To me, there is a gap (often a very large gap)
> between intellectual  
> understanding and doing the right thing. I know that
> too many sweets are bad for  me 
> but that doesn't stop me from overindulging.  That
> paraphrase of  Socrates is 
> too simple and usually wrong.

We do wrong out of greed, anger or delusion. Buddha
wins.  (Bah, there I go being hard on Greeks again)



 
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