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March 22, 2010
The bear truth
Oh, the sycnchronicity of it all! Who said there there isn't a God - or at least a Significant Other?
The thing is, I was going to put up some wisdom today, which Siddharta - from the novel of the same name by Herman Hesse - learned from the river. And then I discover that Winnie the Pooh has got there before me and the enlightened Siddharta - and more succinctly. What a bastard.
Still, hey ho, I'm here now, and in honour of both the two previous blogs, because it draws from each, we discover Siddharta, now an old man, reflecting on his life, which has erred and strayed in many directions.
His conclusion, however, is that he needed to sin; that he needed lust, vanity, the desire for possessions and terrible despair.
And why? 'in order to give up resistance,' he says, 'and in order to learn how to love the world; in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished for or imagined; some kind of perfection I had made up - and instead, simply to leave it as it is and to love it and enjoy being part of it.'
This certainly bears reflection.
Posted by Mr Bojangles at March 22, 2010 03:14 PM