[Buddha-l] karma or kamma

[Jim Peavler]

On Oct 21, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Joy Vriens wrote:

> "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


Pascal. Wasn't he that mathematician fella??  I see why he left it a  
fragment. What is the next sentence you write after
  "our whole foundation cracks  and the earth opens up into the depth  
of the abyss."  ?

Perhaps our whole foundation was already cracked.

Jim Peavler
jmp at peavler.org