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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: desperation
Message-ID: <2815@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-May-84 17:23:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 17:23:16 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 26-May-84 12:50:02 EDT
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I see it's time to post this again.  If you don't see the relation
between desperation and the poem below, read it again very carefully.
It's from "Knots," by R. D. Laing.







	Although innumerable beings have been led to Nirvana
	no being has been led to Nirvana
	
	
	Before one goes through the gate
	one may not be aware there is a gate
	One may think there is a gate to go through
	and look a long time for it
	without finding it
	One may find it and
	it may not open
	If it opens one may be through it
	As one goes through it
	one sees that the gate one went through
	was the self that went through it
	no one went through a gate
	there was no gate to go through
	no one ever found a gate
	no one ever realized there was never a gate