Hi All
On 4 Jul 2001, at 8:37, Platt Holden wrote:
> By the way, humanitarians dedicated to eliminate suffering should note
> the following passage:
>
> "If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no
> evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Suffering is the
> negative face of Quality that drives the whole process." (Lila, Chap. 29)
>
Sufferring here can refer to at least 3 of the static levels and just because we do away with
suffering at a Biological level and even a Social level, as humans we will still retain it at an
intellectual level for some time to come - such is the condition of humans. And then there is
the "Code of Art" or the Dynamic aspect.....
To say we shouldn't eliminate third world biological suffering is ridiculous and a cop-out and
the MoQ just doesn't support this sort of attitude and given the context of the above quote
there is no basis to suppose otherwise.
Horse
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