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By Glass Joe, Today 03:07 AM
Before enlightenment: Looking out in front of you, you see that you must give up absolutely everything. The price of truth is everything.
After enlightenment: Looking back, you see that you gave up nothing at all. The price of truth was nothing.
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I watched Forrest Gump last night on TV, and was thinking exactly what you said here, Joe.
I think a scene in the movie is a perfect metaphor for what you just said.
It seemed that Forrest was deprived--not only was he not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he was crippled besides.
Then to add insult to injury, he's being chased down the road by bullies in a car and he can't run because he's wearing braces!
But he has to run! So he runs, awkwardly clunking along in his braces, and then, lo and behold, the braces...the things that supposedly were holding him together...the braces start coming unpinned and flying off in pieces and Forrest then discovers he can run like the wind!
I loved that scene.
St. Paul expresses a similar attitude: "I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung."