Greetings, I was curious, not resentful. I thought to maybe point out that we're all caught in a language dilemma. God, feminism, just words. But your point was well made.
Marsha At 12:21 AM 1/9/2008, you wrote: >Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of >groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you >fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. > >As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, >you are ready to shout out, "You idiot! What's wrong with >you? Are you blind?" But just before you can catch your >breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped you is >actually blind. > >He, too, is sprawled in the spilled groceries, and your anger vanishes in an >instant, to be replaced by sympathetic concern: "Are you hurt? Can I >help you up?" > >Our situation is like that. *When we clearly realize that the source of >disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of >wisdom and compassion. Then we are in a position to heal ourselves and >others. * >* >*- B. Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground *Up" > * >Moq_Discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ ************* DEFINITION of Marsha, I, me, self, & etc.: Ever-changing collection of overlapping, interrelated, inorganic, biological, social and intellectual, static patterns of value. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
