a thought.

[kjpepper]

ran across this in mereunit's journal... definitely something to think about...

"the buddhist monastic rules that advise renouncing liquor, renouncing sex, and so on are not pointing out that those things are inherently bad or immoral, but that we use them as babysitters. we use them as a way to escape; we use them to try to get comfort and to distract ourselves. the real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are." - pema chödrön, when things fall apart

Interesting... I wonder what sort of things we would discover about ourselves if we were forced to sit somewheres with nothing to distract us from our own headspace and no way of escaping the realities of who we are? goodness knows I do a lot of escaping... not so much through drinking but definitely through sex, food, fiction and music...

hmm.

On another note, I'm going flailing at HvN tonight (and sydneycat, this time I won't forget your CD!) Anyone else joining me or will I be dancing my angst away by my lonesome? inle_rah? gossamer_gull? emily_1126? anyone? anyone? bueller? (yes, those are legit livejournal accounts.)