In his recent Times Sunday Review piece "Love People, Not Pleasure" (NYT, 7/18/14), Arthur C. Brooks quotes the Buddhist Dhammapada to the effect that: "The craving of one given to heedless living grows like a creeper. Like the monkey seeking fruits in the forest, he leaps from life to life...Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains." In the piece Brooks deals with the need to seek external pleasures (fame, money, sex) "to fill an inner...
In his recent Times Sunday Review piece "Love People, Not Pleasure" (NYT, 7/18/14), Arthur C. Brooks quotes the Buddhist Dhammapada to the effect that: "The craving of one given to heedless living grows like a creeper. Like the monkey seeking fruits in the forest, he leaps from life to life...Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains." In the piece Brooks deals with the need to seek external pleasures (fame, money, sex) "to fill an inner...
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