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taiwanese grass jelly herb (3.1/5) (cooling, bitter mint sensation that feels light but has an intense climate. apparently, when steeped with agar agar or gelatin, it can thicken into a jelly. however, i would prefer to drink the herb as is.) "And surely you have seen, in the darkness of the most innermost rooms of these huge buildings, to which sunlight never penetrates, how the gold lead of a sliding door or screen will pick up a distant glimmer from the garden, then suddenly send forth an ethereal glow, a faint golden light cast into the enveloping darkness. How in such a dark place, gold draws so much light to itself is a mystery to me. Modern man, in his well-lit house, knows nothing of the beauty of gold, but those who lived in the dark houses of the past were not merely captivated by its beauty, they also knew its practical value, for gold in these dim rooms, must have served the function of a reflector. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." Tanizaki'...
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on suffering

According to Nietzsche, humankind means nothing without pain. According to Schopenhauer, unless suffering is the direct object of life, our existence must fail entirely of aim. According to Marukami, pain is inevitable yet suffering is optional.

Agony will never cease to exist in this world and sorrow is inescapable; if it is true that emotional torment is inexorable, does its capacity have a maximum of deductibility? Is there a possible potential state of our kind where we have achieved in reducing suffering to its maximum? Even then, since the pain has simply been reduced, not eliminated completely, how will we be aware that we have minimized it to its highest possibly designated threshold? 

Or is it like dividing an indivisible number, incapable of being divided by any other factors besides itself and 1? Since there will always be a fraction of suffering no matter how small in magnitude, will we as mere humans even hold the ability to be satisfied? Or will we constantly argue that the remainder of suffering that remains can still be divided again, and again, and again? 

I guess that is what the essence of suffering is-- the absence of satisfaction.

I hope I can find satisfaction within myself. :-)

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