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Grasping (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the world is a stranglehold around one's own neck, cutting off the very life one longs for.

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Grasping (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what the contemplative refuses, not motion: in breath or in sex, the point is never to stop but not to grasp.

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Grasping (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be stopped by trying not to grasp: the attempt rests on the same false premise, that an ego is doing the doing.