[Buddha-l] karma or kamma

[Piya Tan]

Inspiring.
(Piya is wiping a small tear from his eye.)



On 10/21/07, Joy Vriens <jvriens at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Piya,
>
> >Dictionaries are the epitaphs of a language. Poets try to give new senses
> to
> >words.
> >Philosophers try to confuse us with them. The still-minded meditator
> tries
> >to set
> >them free.
>
> "We are floating in a medium of a vast extent, always drifting
> uncertainly, blown to and fro; whenever we
> think we have a fixed point to which we can cling and make fast, it shifts
> and leaves us behind; if we follow
> it, it eludes our grasp, slips away, and flees eternally before us.
> Nothing stands still for us. This is our
> natural state and yet the state most contrary to our inclinations. We burn
> with desire to find a firm footing,
> an ultimate, lasting base on which to build a tower rising up to infinity,
> but our whole foundation cracks
> and the earth opens up into the depth of the abyss."
> —Pascal, Pensées, fragment 199/72
>
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