[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:33:26 -0500
Robert Paul writes:
: The cause of my anger is
: that someone stole my M & M's; her stealing them isn't my anger. It's
: what provoked it.
This sounds like the first third of Buddhism 101. The second third
is that the way to extinguish that anger is to get rid your greed for
M & M's. The final third, as I understand it, is that the way to do
that is to truly recognize that as a matter of ultimate reality
there are no independent things such as M & M's to be craved or one's
self to do the craving.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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