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Old 05-02-2007, 06:29 PM   #42 (permalink)
ZHereford
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Originally Posted by Lindsoid View Post
Since when is it unhealthy to feel pain at the loss of a loved one? The pain does come from attachment to things that are temporary but why is that bad? Why would one value no pain over pain? Development isn't a way to transcend pain, on the contrary with development comes a greater and greater capacity for pain, a greater awareness of suffering and the realization that it is attachment by the ego... which is healthy. This is why you seem dissociated.

Well said Lindsoid!
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