Re: Upanishad / George Dance

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:49:48 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
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 > > In alt.arts.poetry.comments on Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:17:55 -0800
(PST),
 > > George Dance <georgedance04> wrote:
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 > > On Jan 8, 4:30 pm, "=z=" <shull> wrote:
 > > On Jan 8, 3:48 pm, George Dance <georgedanc> wrote:
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > Upanishad
 > >
 > > What is the good of loving our desires
 > > in these foul-smelling, insubstantial bodies
 > > of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, semen, flesh,
 > > tears, sweat, feces, urine, bile, and wind?
 > >
 > > What is the good of loving our desires
 > > when we can see the whole world is decaying,
 > > when ants, mosquitos, every living creature,
 > > the very trees and rocks, arise and perish?
 > >
 > > What is the good of loving our desires
 > > when we can see the drying up of oceans,
 > > the fall of mountains, and the earth's submergence,
 > > even the disappearance of the stars?
 > >
 > > What is the good of loving our desires?
 > > Deliver me, and let me not exist.
 > >
 > > --
 > > George Dance
 > >
 > > it reminds me of 'da vinci'...who apparently despised the human
body
 > > with all it's smells and aberrant textures...of course at that
period
 > > of time no wonder...gnosticism at itŽs best ...
 > >
 > > It's actually from an ancient Hindu text, the Maitri Upanishad
(hence
 > > the title). But I expect such sentiments were common throughout
the
 > > precapitalist world (and still today, in some circles).
 > >
 > > It was an insight I picked up from Rand, though I doubt she was
the
 > > first to have it, that despising material existence in favor of
ideal
 > > or heavenly reality was tied to the squalor of human existence,
and
 > > that that's one reason religious belief declines as material
 > > conditions improve.
 > >
 > Peter J Ross wrote:
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 > Is there no limit to how much time pretentious stupid people will
 > spend patting each other on the back for being pretentious and
stupid?
 >
 > .... Leonardo ... the Upanishads ... Ayn Rand ... aberrant textures
...
 > precapitalist world ... yadda yadda ...
 >
 >
 > Has either of you ever had an intelligent thought in either of
your
 > lives?
 >
 >
 >
 > --
 > PJR :-)
 >
 >  http://pjr.lasnobberia.net/verse/
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Troll much, PJR?
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Did Peter pass away  ?