[Zen] Re: Where's Bill?

2008-11-07 Thread zatoichi63
Bill Smart I arrived just in time to be with my father before he passed away. He died on 05Feb. He would have been 91 on 08Feb. Sorry to hear of this. Hope everything goes as smoothly as possible. Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you

Re: [Zen] Is SATORI just a fairy tale?

2008-11-07 Thread zatoichi63
Edgar Owen Not only do almost all fossil creatures fall into rather neat evolutionary sequences but so do living species fall into neat related groupings (taxonomy) Taxonomy and Evolution are two different things. That creatures are related by species is not the same as proving that one

[Zen] Gaps In Evolution

2008-11-07 Thread zatoichi63
Gaps in Evolution - Part I Deepak Chopra - August 28, 2005 My last few posts were prompted not just by the recent debate over intelligent design but a desire to see an adequate theory emerge that will include the origin of consciousness. This is really the missing link, if there is one.

Re: [Zen] Is SATORI just a fairy tale?

2008-11-07 Thread Edgar Owen
Zatoichi, Evolution seems to be your koan that you have not yet answered! Edgar On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:35 AM, zatoichi63 wrote: Edgar Owen Not only do almost all fossil creatures fall into rather neat evolutionary sequences but so do living species fall into neat related groupings

[Zen] Christmas Secret Santa Gift Exchange

2008-11-07 Thread Jackson Masters
OK, so who is signing up for the Secret Santa gift exchange? Almost everyone here is not Buddhist. There are like 2 Muslims. Not sure if there are any Jews on this list? So if you want to exchange a gift, sign up now. We will go with Dollar Store value. Blind system. You sign up, and then the

Re: [Zen] Gaps In Evolution

2008-11-07 Thread Edgar Owen
Zato, Sounds to me like Deepak accepts evolution as the mechanism by which life evolves. He just says there may be something beyond that in the fine tuning of the universe such as to produce intelligent life. That's the view I hold as well. It neither denies the ongoing mechanism of

Re: [Zen] Old People Zen

2008-11-07 Thread Anthony Wu
A good answer: there was a movie called Logan's Run, where a society has a law that shoots anyone over 30 years old with a laser gun. So the city has ended up with all young people and lives happily, until inevitably they are 30.   Anthony --- On Thu, 6/11/08, Camila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: