Ven Udāyin: 'What is the pleasure [in Nibbāna]… where there is nothing felt?'
Ven Sāriputta: 'Just that is the pleasure… there is nothing felt. …attention to perceptions dealing with sensuality… directed thought… [etc] is an affliction'
(AN 9:34, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu's translation).
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN9_34.html
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from the album More Constant Than The Gods
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
The evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man, are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to solace them; and he, therefore, will be in danger of seeing a common enemy, who shall attempt to depreciate the few pleasures and felicities which nature has allowed us.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111
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The evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man, are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to solace them; and he, therefore, will be in danger of seeing a common enemy, who shall attempt…
More Than a #Feeling;
In #MichaelClune’s first #novel, #affliction is #revelation
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