Monday, July 25, 2011

The Dhammapada: Life Lessons That We Shouldn’t Know Too Well

The Buddhist text focuses on the “right” path and the “wrong” path. A quote from this text sums up my feelings pretty well

Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.

As a person who doesn’t believe in the existence of a right or a wrong, much of the text seems like a bunch of senseless words. I think in our yearning for truth, Dhammapada creates these principles which in Flatland or The Little Prince’s planet don’t hold true. I just can’t accept it.

In all fairness, like the quote says above, there were some great nuggets of wisdom which do keep me quiet; so it was worthwhile.

3 comments:

Megha Kulshreshtha said...

i don't know exactly what i disagree about...but i definitely disagree with u lol

Eskay said...

maybe its cause the title is the opposite of what you posted?

Megha Kulshreshtha said...

hahaha...your not allowed to disagree with your didi

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