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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

like a fisherman's hook...

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

It's easy to let it seep in. Like a slow drip on a stone, it will eventually leave a mark that cannot go unnoticed. We become dented, different, and changed. Anything you use to fill in the mark it's made is gone in less time than the original material, and then you find you are hooked. If you relax, the hook stops driving deeper, and the pain relinquishes. But you are still hooked. But when you remove the source of the drip, and acknowledge the change, it's easier to manage and understand, and explain.

Beware the hooks because they are everywhere. People carry them with them. Many forms of religion and belief systems have them embedded. It's easy to get caught, and painful to get free. When whole ideologies clash, hooks fly both directions, and people in between get caught unawares. Hooked. Drawn in to things bigger than themselves, from which the only release is through the fire, through pain, through hell and death itself.

: toadman : at Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |

Comments:

cooooool picture.

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jb3ll3 : 4:13 PM

I never thought of anger as hooks before. But, the Dali Sugar-Daddy Lama is right. Thems some nasty hooks. Word.

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Turquoise : 8:35 PM

Thanks jb3ll3, I thought so too. It was kind of a surprising picture given the google image search I did...but it seemed to fit, in a way.

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toadman : 9:08 PM

Yeah turquiose, that there Lama is pretty cool and laid back. I like the guy. He's got a great tailor also. I need some of those clothes, they look super comfy.

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toadman : 9:09 PM

Yeah. The pic is perfect. What anger and hatred to to the soul, they also do to a nation. And part of the work is finding the damn hooks. Thanks for the reminder.

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Twyla : 3:50 AM