Re: Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenters.

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Aha! Well spotted indeed !!! These sort of things should be the meat and
potatoes of a thing like this. I especially like the `purified of illusion'
- for isn't this the state that every Salinger character aspires to?

Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com

Jared wrote:
>     I found this interesting, at least.   I read that upon reaching
> enlightenment,
> in his exuberance, Buddha shouted, "Now thou art seen, thou builder of
the
> house, never again shalt thou build me a house. All my rafters are
broken,
> shattered the roof-beam; my thoughts are purified of illusion; the
> extinction
> of craving has been won" (Dhammapada 154).
> 
>     Maybe Boo Boo implied something different.
> 
>         -Jared, 17


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