Re: Why do you live on?
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:22 pm
Cancer wrote:A while back, when I was (again!) thinking about suicide, I came up with the idea of simply listing things---
I too have made such lists. It is very comforting & much needed when in great stress & close to giving up.
After the full enlightenment has been reached (yes, I believe that is actually possible), I think such lists would most likely include everything, because everything becomes deeply understandable by the heart. Which helps to understand how nirvana, in a way, equals samsara.
Cancer wrote:What love is bound to - and how - is not unimportant. If the joint to something formal is too uncompromising, love becomes choked, and if it's too loose, love dissolves.
That's what I think too. Love is so living & whole a thing that philosophy about what love actually is kills it outright; actual love becomes a love-term or love-word while we are vivisecting it.
By which I don't mean it shouldn't or couldn't be talked about, but that love of the philosophers must be understood to be like a picture of love, or an x-ray of the loved one. (It definitely has its important uses, although using it too much might be bad for one's health...) It's something like the God of theologians, unable to help anybody or even exist on its own.