 25 Feb 2004 @ 02:25
In the shop,
The paper-weights on the picture books:
The spring wind!
---Kito
Wisdom is better than wit.
---Jane Austen
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point: we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.
---Shunryu Suzuki
I mean, can too many choices be as frustrating to one's freedom as having no choice at all? You may say obviously all those brands and grades of cough syrup in the midst of my suffering, and all those breakfast cereals are maddening and absurd...BUT the free market is better that some (other) kind of dictatorship. Not so fast. Here comes an article in the current The New Yorker that treats exactly this conundrum. Actually a book review, nevertheless I found it struck a chord~~~ More >
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