http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/01/31/seeking-causes/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/01/31/seeking-causes/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Eroteme Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2005/01/31/255#comment-633 Yup, totally agree with the author. Derivative to this is te funny need for "group therapy", as a friend of mine calls it. Ridiculous. People want to be told that they are fabulous and they are full of potential and god-knows-what-not. No one cares about sitting down and looking at their sorry lives (if it is so), trying to figure out what happened down the road and then working on it and improving it. People only care about quick fixes. This is also reflected in other spheres of life. Parents get their children to pop a pill without trying to explain to them what happened and what got them sick and how they need to be careful. Children aren't coaxed into exploring the roots of things either. I hated it when for certain illnesses we weren't given medicines and asked to be patient. I am glad now (though not many have changed their childhood opinion of the torture). Marriage counsellors who know nothing about the couple are called in to rectify a withering marriage. Why? Why can't the couple sit down and go over their lives and thoughts and emotions? Though I do not subscribe to Buddha's (or any one person's) views in entirity, I hold this as a valuable guide or teaching of his. Yup, totally agree with the author. Derivative to this is te funny need for “group therapy”, as a friend of mine calls it. Ridiculous. People want to be told that they are fabulous and they are full of potential and god-knows-what-not. No one cares about sitting down and looking at their sorry lives (if it is so), trying to figure out what happened down the road and then working on it and improving it. People only care about quick fixes. This is also reflected in other spheres of life. Parents get their children to pop a pill without trying to explain to them what happened and what got them sick and how they need to be careful. Children aren’t coaxed into exploring the roots of things either. I hated it when for certain illnesses we weren’t given medicines and asked to be patient. I am glad now (though not many have changed their childhood opinion of the torture). Marriage counsellors who know nothing about the couple are called in to rectify a withering marriage. Why? Why can’t the couple sit down and go over their lives and thoughts and emotions?
Though I do not subscribe to Buddha’s (or any one person’s) views in entirity, I hold this as a valuable guide or teaching of his.

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