3 thoughts

Todays thoughts:

> We have to follow our own self even when if leads to suffering because to follow others is to abandon the vessel.

> The path of life is simple: either attend to desires or seek to abandon desires. While we may approach the problem gradually across the middle ground, it is not a place where we can abide - you either give in or you grow wise to desires hold upon life.

> The centre does not lie at the beginning!

The endless cycle of lives has no start and no finish. It is not about "when" it first started turning cos which cycle could this be? The meaning of origin when it comes to cycles is the axle upon which the wheel turns. That is the beginning and the end and it never changes. It is because, as Buddha's contemporary Lao Tse would say, the axle hole is nothing that it is so useful to the cycle.

This is the same sort of idea (I won't accept that there is any real similarity as they are derived from completely different sources) as physics when it says that the centre of the universe is the same as the beginning of the universe and occurs as a point in 4D space-time.