Oct 25, 2011 21:41
"To be happy and free from suffering has been at the center of humanity's age-old quest for understanding. We have invented the wheel, we have split the atom, and we have ventured far into outer space. Yet after tens of thousands of years, and after all the so-called progress we have made, we still have many of the old problems, as well as an array of new ones. There always seems to be a measure of suffering that cannot be eliminated by progress."
- Gawin Harrison, In the Lap of the Buddha, p22.