Sunday, October 23, 2005

Attentiveness not Nihilism


Attentiveness is the path to true life;
Indifference is the path to death.
The attentive do not die;
The indifferent are as if they are dead already.

-Dhammapada

James's comment: Often Buddhism is seen as nihilism. However, I think that this quote from the Dhammapada helps show that it is not. It is rather non-attachment then nihilism. The middle way of neither attaching to or rejecting anything.

-Peace to all beings-

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