“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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sharing some provocative ideas from Slavoj Žižek on his 75th birthday (March 21st)
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Desire And Clinging
We may think Buddhism is about living a world free of desires and pleasures. It's impossible and also not true. Clinging to desire is the problem.
Say you are excited about dining at your favourite restaurant, but when you get there you find it closed. It's ok to want to eat your favour...
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