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Originally Posted by John Freestone  But the Buddha's legacy was the Middle Way, not deliberately going for pleasure and gain, nor pushing it away and living the utterly austere life. It says you find the real happiness - liberation, freedom from suffering - by overcoming the desire to be free of suffering (paradoxical though that may seem). I'm just saying that we would all be wiser to look for shortcuts on the hierarchy. There are plenty of sages who never owned a bean. |
That bears repeating and echos what some of the LoA material says about not being attached to the desire of the intention. Or rather, LoA echos the Buddhist view, more likely.