THE PARTY LINE

By Dennis D. Gagnon

In a later chapter of the book, a character referred to as “Sage” makes the comment when discussing human suffering that “most consciousnesses are practically filled to the brim with nothingnesses.”

What does this mean, and how does it bear upon human suffering?

Though I won’t go into the full details here, in the book Sage is making the point that most if not all of our objects of desire don’t really exist — they are made up objects in our minds.  Thus to go about trying to claim those fictional objects only leads to frustration and non-satisfaction.  In our fictional worlds of our own making we go about in life chasing shiny objects that don’t really exist.  Our constant frustration at not being able to satisfy our desires leads to an underlying sense of dis-ease, suffering.

I look forward to hearing comments from you about the book.