[Buddha-l] Be good for Godsake

[Jayarava]

--- On Sun, 5/4/09, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> When seeking intelligent critiques of religion, I'll stick to Hume
> and Nietzsche.

Bryan Magee points out that philosophy doesn't seem to progress in an orderly fashion. The science of today is built on the science of yesterday, and bigger and better breakthroughs have been made by a stream of great minds. But in philosophy centuries go by without any great philosophers. His endpoint is Schopenhauer. 

> Every night I look at the sky in the direction of my home
> planet and wonder when the ship is coming back to pick me up. Am I
> being punished for something I did or said there? 

No, it's not personal, samsara just sucks.

Remember: so karoti so paṭisamvediyati... sassataṃ etaṃ pareti.

Ciao
Jayarava