Re: [Zen] The BBC on Zen

2010-12-04 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Anthony If you like to have a good time thinking, take notice that old testament begins with Elohim. Elohim is the plural of Elohi (God). So, it begins by The Gods... Food for though With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From: Anthony Wu To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com

Re: [Zen] Thanks for an engaging listserv!

2010-11-28 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Mayka Thanks a lot for the link. I am right now listening to it. With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From: Maria Lopez To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [Zen] Thanks for an engaging listserv! Chris

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Amazon book

2010-11-25 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Ed, Anthony To help the others you should be able. Without the oxygen mask, you could not help. Extrem: only an oxygen mask. Well, probably I will renounce to it on behalf of anyone that is in my heart ( (yes, attachement. But compassion is also attachement, as I understand) Any listizen

Re: [Zen] Thanks for an engaging listserv!

2010-11-25 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Chris I am used to 4 or a multiple of for directions of wind. 10? May you be so kind to explain which ones to an ignorant? With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From: ChrisAustinLane To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 10:38 PM Subject:

Re: [Zen] Thanks for an engaging listserv!

2010-11-25 Thread Lluís Mendieta
along without discrimination, and sending thanks from this windy brisk day to all you all over the world it seemed an appropriate image. Thanks, Chris Austin-Lanem Sent from a cell phone On Nov 25, 2010, at 13:42, Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es wrote: Hi, Chris I am used

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Anthony You say: The Sixth Patriarch did not even read or write. Yes, you are right, but he asked others to read and write for him, because he was illiterate. In other words, he had trouble with Chinese ideographic characters, but he was very smart in understanding language. That is a

Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices

2010-11-24 Thread Lluís Mendieta
, welcome to zen. Otherwise a color TV is more colorful. Anthony --- On Thu, 25/11/10, Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es wrote: From: Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es Subject: Re: [Zen] Three Buddhist Practices To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Amazon book

2010-11-22 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, all Not zen, just meaning -Beleiving is the confirmation that we do not know. If you know, you do not beleive, you *know* -As my teacher in inorganic chemistry said we can talk a lot, but no ones knows what is over the roof. He is Jesuit. Theology apart of chemistry Besides, I beleive in

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-15 Thread Lluís Mendieta
into nouns, verbs, subjects and objects. All this grammar is imposed upon language in an attempt to 'understand' language. 'Understand' always means 'impose a logical structure'. ...Bill! From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lluís Mendieta

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-15 Thread Lluís Mendieta
, but the written language will require life effort. Standard Tibetan is not tonal, but some of their dialects are. They are interesting, but not much use. Anthony --- On Mon, 15/11/10, Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es wrote: From: Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-15 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Of ED Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:50 PM To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Lluís Mendieta lme...@... wrote: Hi, Ed Thanks for map They forget the basques... Hi Lluis

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-14 Thread Lluís Mendieta
speakers across northern Europe and Asia. I have never seen explanations of the actual evidence for the Basque-Chinese connection. --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Lluís Mendieta lme...@... wrote: Hi, Ed Well, I am at lost in what you mind I understand

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-14 Thread Lluís Mendieta
genetics can be explained by the fact that they were at one time a very small population, preserving its genetic idiosyncrasies as it expanded. --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Lluís Mendieta lme...@... wrote: Hi, Ed Sorry for my poor english I tried to mean that the rest

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-14 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Lluís - Original Message - From: ED To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 5:50 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Lluís Mendieta lme...@... wrote: Hi, Ed Thanks for map

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-14 Thread Lluís Mendieta
) With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From: ED To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 6:14 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Lluís Mendieta lme...@... wrote: Hi, Ed

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-14 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Anthony Being not too long ago in Japan, and speaking spanish (among others), I could say that japanese is not that hard for a spanish speaker: sounds are easy to recognize. Not being tonal is also a plus for us. Tones are hard to understand for anyone that have never heard those. Other

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-13 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Bill I beg to differ in two non zen questions -Hungry? has the subject implicit. You do not place it, but it is implied. The werb in spanish or catalan would be also implicit, so, I suppose same in english. -finnish is a westerner language. And they have a lot of words to design the

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-13 Thread Lluís Mendieta
absorbed northward migrating Indo-European speakers who adopted the Finnic language, giving rise to the modern Finns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Lluís Mendieta lme...@... wrote: Hi, Bill I beg to differ in two non zen questions

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-08 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Anthony Just an ignorant, but what I have read about tantra practices of sex and eating meat, were accompanied with a disclaimer: the sex and eating meat were done as such in non inner circles. In the inner circles, was a metaphoric,or as you want to call it, thing. In this way, nothing

Re: [Zen] Reality in Buddhism not necessarily illusory

2010-11-06 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hi, Ed How you could be sure that an experience is not an illussion? A mirage is an illussion, and you experience it. Even in maths, all constructs rely in a set of axiomas, that by definition, could not be proven. With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From:

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-06 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Amitabha and zen is that the former relies on 'others', while the latter, on yourself. These two are both nice and peaceful. Anthony --- On Thu, 4/11/10, Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es wrote: From: Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: FW

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-06 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Thanks, Ed With best wishes Lluís - Original Message - From: ED To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 4:04 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas Not Zen. Mahayana/Vajrayana

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-04 Thread Lluís Mendieta
think zen is lacking in compassion? If somebody says that, I would have difficulty in opposing. Anthony --- On Wed, 3/11/10, Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es wrote: From: Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas

Re: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-11-03 Thread Lluís Mendieta
Hello Lluis: Welcome to the zen forum. is Lluis your real name or it's a nickname you have adopted to participate in this forum. Are you from Catalunya?. Mayka --- On Tue, 2/11/10, Lluís Mendieta lme...@intermail.es wrote: From: Lluís