On May 23rd, 2010 Rob Schackne (not verified) says:
A very worthy undertaking. My heart of course goes out to all who suffer directly and indirectly. But lest it be said that addiction is merely to the self, to friends and family, let us not forget that a similar Soma-dream has been marketed to us all, chiefly those ones labelled Happiness, Satisfaction and Excess. That anything that is good to do is worth doing too much of is a given. But we take that knowledge and what do we do with it? How the path deviates and then puts the weak and the strong into zones where they cannot help themselves is the case that needs to be addressed. I won't cast the first stone -- there is little point -- but so much of the world appears to require addiction, not to say ignorance, and it cares little about the pain any of it causes. On one level, addiction is to the way it operates. Does anyone actually conceive of a world with much less pain? Who is in charge of that?
On Addiction
A very worthy undertaking. My heart of course goes out to all who suffer directly and indirectly. But lest it be said that addiction is merely to the self, to friends and family, let us not forget that a similar Soma-dream has been marketed to us all, chiefly those ones labelled Happiness, Satisfaction and Excess. That anything that is good to do is worth doing too much of is a given. But we take that knowledge and what do we do with it? How the path deviates and then puts the weak and the strong into zones where they cannot help themselves is the case that needs to be addressed. I won't cast the first stone -- there is little point -- but so much of the world appears to require addiction, not to say ignorance, and it cares little about the pain any of it causes. On one level, addiction is to the way it operates. Does anyone actually conceive of a world with much less pain? Who is in charge of that?