Topic: desire

or hearts, or rectangles, or ovals... The other day I decided that I needed to know what face shape I had. I told CamiKaos about my desire, so she joined me (via Instant Messaging) to find out what her shape was. We looked at Flickr photos of ourselves, even studied the photo strip we had taken together months ago. But finally, after much internet searching I found a site that actually helped....

A friend emailed me to ask if I had been watching the Democratic Party convention in Denver -- he thought it was high comedy!! I replied that I had decided to pass because I didn't desire to make myself sick, both with too much laughter and too much time screaming in horror at the telly. I've read a little bit about it online and, folks, that's enough for me! Political party conventions...

There are many afflictive emotions such as conceit, arrogance, jealousy, desire, lust, closed-mindedness, and so on, but of all these, hatred or anger is singled our as the greatest evil. This is done for two reasons. One is that hatred or anger is the greatest stumbling block for a practitioner who is aspiring to enhance his or her altruism and attain a good heart. Second, when hatred or...