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Subject: Desire for Enlightenment


How can one desire to be enlightened? Presumably desire is one of the
things that hinders us in reaching enlightenment. If _I_ want to
be enlightened, isn't that an ego-desire? If so, I will never become
enlightened, because my ego will get in the way. So how can I desire
to be enlightened without involving my ego? Is there some other part
of me that does the desiring, and my ego must step aside?

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Hugh Garsden
University of Adelaide
hugh@cs.adelaide.edu.au