[Buddha-l] FW: buddhism and brain studies

[Richard Hayes]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 13:52 -0700, jkirk wrote:
>  Ok, now that this topic has led to extreme running for
> pain/pleasure, let us not overlook the masochists of the world
> who get pleasure from feeling emotional and physical pain. Like
> the runners Alberto noted, these folks are usually obsessive, and
> they usually do not want to overcome/get rid of their special
> predilection.  Same goes for their sadist enablers. 
> Luckily, the early Buddhists didn't have to deal with the likes
> of these.

Yeah, he just had to deal with pussycats like Angulimala.

-- 
Richard