Merle,
Probably not, but survival is not the goal or purpose of zen...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Merle Lester merlewiitpom@... wrote:
is it possible to survive day to day in our present civilisation
egoless?...merle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egolessness
Kris,
Please don't think my continual push-back on you is any form of disrespect. It
is my method of re-stating what you say in a way that is more compatible with
my thoughts. Like bouncing them off you to see what you will say. Many of the
differences may just be semantic, but that's why
OK - Forum's slow, and all's quiet hereabouts, so I'll bite...
Yes Bill!, delusion is delusion (aka delusion of separations - aka no
independent origination - aka emptiness - aka form is
emptiness/emptiness is form - etc. - etc...), appearing as all 'other'
apparent forms of delusion. (also
Kris,
Thanks for your well thought out reply.
I too am not trying to infer that explanations are right or wrong. I do find
some explanations more comfortable than others, and perhaps that
comfortableness is strongly dependent upon semantics.
Also I want to state here and now that all my
On 9/16/2013 5:56 AM, Bill! wrote:
Kris,
Thanks for your well thought out reply.
Ironic nonetheless! *L*
I too am not trying to infer that explanations are right or wrong.
Ah, but then why explain at all? Explanations by their very nature do
exactly that. It's fine sport, but a poor