Essay

 1    1|           the hereafter. That is to say, consequences follow causes
 2    1|            a continuity; that is to say, each succeeding birth depends
 3    1|          the happiest person cannot say when and in what form misfortune
 4    3|          might even go so far as to say that for the Buddhist everybody'
 5    3|       people. 'I thought,' they may say, 'you didn't have to have
 6    3|        anything worthwhile. When we say 'I take refuge in the Buddha,
 7    4|      detached. One should not, they say, become detached and aloof
 8    4|                engagé as the French say. For them, detachment is
 9    4|      detached. If the crusader for, say, capital punishment is a
10    4| preoccupation with it -- that is to say, with the things of the
11    4|          way, that our emotions of, say, greed or hate or fear are
12    4|           and subtle twist. You may say 'Yes, I suppose that's true.