Noble Truths, Redux

[e_dog]

If life is suffering,
then love is torture.

The cause of each is the spirit.

The spirit can be extinguished
like a torch flame
under a waterfall.

The path to the falls
is that of questioning
the matter of things.

The path is comprised
of eight stones:
fear of living,
joy of trying,
taste of body,
pain of leaving,
fear of dying,
joy of giving,
taste of failing,
pain of ending.

After the breath escapes,
there is the vacuum.

[stilltrucking]

When I first started posting to litchicks

estrogen rules

I had never heard of Rilke. Just a vacuous name in my fevered brain.


oh brother that was excellent
Whereever he went a poet had been there before him.

[joel]

staying power. maybe the cycles of the year or where the stars fall or some kind of universality, but so relevant....

[Totenkopf]

Suffering is life, and the desire of attachment the suffering of all cause. So said the Moo duh.

[Dave The Dov]

Allen Ginsberg wrote a song about it.
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