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Lock them up
I'd be happy if all the drug users and drug pushers who are presently serving exorbitant sentences under federal sentencing rules were released and all of the freed up beds were given to sex offenders who would be locked up for the remainder of their natural lives.
You can get off of drugs, but there's something in the mind of a sex offender that prevents them from being “rehabilitated” in prison. I've heard too many cases recently of “released sex offenders” committing crimes even more horrendous than the crimes that got them convicted in the first place. This is a travesty against society. We should change it.
True enlightenment and wholeness
“True enlightenment and wholeness arise when we are without anxiety about nonperfection.”
~ The Third Patriarch
Once begun
“Better not to begin. Once you begin, better to finish it.”
~ Buddhist saying
it and that
“We’re not it. We’re not even all that.”
~ Neil Boortz
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“It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.†–Jean-Paul Sartre “It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.†–Blaise Pascal More info at Arocoun’s Wikipedia User Page…
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What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
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serious philosophical questions
You may not like it
“What do you want to get enlightened for? You may not like it.”
~ Shunryu Suzuki
another idea to be discarded
“At the very least, sitting Zen practice, called zazen, will bring about a strong sense of well-being, as the clutter of ideas and emotions falls away and body and mind return to natural harmony with all creation. Out of this emptiness can come a true insight into the nature of existence, which is no different from one’s Buddha nature. To travel this path, one need not be a ‘Zen Buddhist,’ which is only another idea to be discarded, like ‘enlightenment’ and ‘the Buddha’ and like ‘God.’
~ Peter Matthiessen
What counts
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting.”
~ e.e. cummings
“What you see with your eyes closed is what counts.”
~ Lame Deer, Lakota sage
A dog chasing its own tail
“Only our own searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it. It is like a vivid rainbow which you pursue without ever catching it, or a dog chasing its own tail. Although peace and happiness do not exist as an actual thing or place, they are always available, and accompany you every instant.”
~ Gendun Rinpoche