Posted by Atticus on December 9, 2004, at 8:44:28
In reply to Which One Will Win?, posted by saw on December 9, 2004, at 1:27:07
I agree. This is a great parable. I first encountered it in an intensive outpatient group immediately following my hospitalization. I even wove it into one of my poems posted on Writing a few months back ("Two Wolves"). And coincidentally, I just stumbled across it two days ago in a book I was reading. I wonder if George Lucas has ever seen the tale. His "Star Wars" notion of being "seduced by the Dark Side" because you "feed" the Dark Side with your anger and fear certainly seems to echo the same idea. I seem to remember reading that he said he drew mainly on Eastern religious mythologies to develop his conception of the "Force," especially Buddhism and Shinto. Obviously this same idea of dark emotions and thoughts vs. positive ones within us occurred to philosophers in that part of the world too. Atticus
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