[Buddha-l] FW: buddhism and brain studies

[jkirk]

Angulimala chose to get rid of his problem, suggesting that 
he wasn't an obsessive about it, intending to cling to it
forever.
Joanna

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Hayes
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:42 PM
To: Buddhist discussion forum
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] FW: buddhism and brain studies

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 13:52 -0700, jkirk wrote:
>  Ok, now that this topic has led to extreme running for
pain/pleasure, 
> let us not overlook the masochists of the world who get
pleasure from 
> feeling emotional and physical pain. Like the runners Alberto
noted, 
> these folks are usually obsessive, and they usually do not want
to 
> overcome/get rid of their special predilection.  Same goes for
their 
> sadist enablers.
> Luckily, the early Buddhists didn't have to deal with the likes
of 
> these.

Yeah, he just had to deal with pussycats like Angulimala.

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Richard

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