Saturday 23 July 2011

Wise Words.

Desire is the root of all suffering.

Pretty obvious really, I suppose. Won't stop us doing it, though, will it? Isn't that what the Vale of Tears thing is all about?

I'm inclined to agree that material life has no other purpose than to serve God's desire to experience Itself through separateness. But if you take that view, it's the separateness that causes the suffering, not the desire. Unless you go further and argue that without separateness there is no desire.

Herman Hess said that the purpose of love is to find out how much we can endure. So does that make love the root of all suffering? But God is love, isn't It?

Where is this going?

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