[Zen] RE: Re: New (unfortunate) Look, etc., of the Group Website

2013-09-23 Thread desert_woodworker
Bill!,Howdy, I use Firefox under Windows XP and Windows 8, on several machines.--Joe --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, zen_forum@yahoogroups.com wrote:Joe, What browser are you using? ...Bill! __._,_.___ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book

[Zen] RE: Re: New (unfortunate) Look, etc., of the Group Website

2013-09-18 Thread desert_woodworker
Thanks for the very good specificity in your post, Bill! (!)When I use the URl you gave and put it in the command line of Firefox, I see, regrettably, theKremlin.And the URL in the command line of the browser at that time changes to, and

[Zen] New (unfortunate) Look, etc., of the Group Website

2013-09-17 Thread desert_woodworker
Bill!, Edgar,Can something be done to restore the old look and functionality of the group website? This new incarnation is too discomforting.I suspect and fear that this change is due to the new Yahoo CEO.Maybe all are powerless to repair the damages, therefore. Im lost, as it is,

[Zen] changed appearance and functionality

2013-09-10 Thread desert_woodworker
Bill!, and Group,Ive returned and find no familiar form of the Forum.Whats the deal with the pointy rooftops of the Kremlin? Why no view of things as before?Maybe all things must pass. Am I unique in being sorry about i, however?Its impossible to pick up where we left off... .

[Zen] Re: to font or not to font

2013-03-28 Thread desert_woodworker
Jeff, Not at all. In a Zen school, where people are practicing, a certain line of practice talk and practical lineage are invoked, I think especially in the Soto schools. That's not law-enforcement: it is simply an explication about how to inherit the family jewels. One has prescribed ways

[Zen] Re: Baby Photo

2012-10-07 Thread desert_woodworker
Bill!, Your first instinct was correct. But I doubt Big Bang is a finished notion. It's in trouble now, and the trouble in Physics is a big embarrassment to fundamental Science. But we do the best we can! All the observations until lately point to a reasonable synthesis that results in a

[Zen] Re: I need some practice advice

2012-10-07 Thread desert_woodworker
Dear Jim, If the feral cats are truly feral, it is a good idea to capture them and have them spayed at a free- or low-cost clinic before feeding them. Feeding the females will make them fertile, and then they can bring more starving beings to birth. Consider it! --Joe jfnewell7

[Zen] Re: Old Zen, New Zen

2012-10-07 Thread desert_woodworker
Yonyonson, Seriously, all Tortoise-Shell Coat cats are female. And some people will not keep male cats because of the spray-marking of territory that even neutered Toms will do, if they ever learned that behavior. The numerical part of the cat's name came from our telephone Area Code of the

[Zen] Re: I need some practice advice

2012-10-07 Thread desert_woodworker
Edgar, You have a point. But, you say killing? (I didn't). I live in cities, and always have done. Except when I lived for years in the Andes on the observatory mountain, among Puma. In cities, feral cats are not in a state of nature, even here in the State of Arizona. They are dependent

[Zen] Re: I need some practice advice

2012-10-06 Thread desert_woodworker
Dear Cousin Merle, Pul-eeeze don't use the word in this way. It makes my toupee shrivel. There are no belts in Zen practice: we may be Kung Fu, but have no belts. The breathing should be unrestricted about the hara, the tan tien. Only belt is: A belt, I'll give you!: Or 20, or 40. ;-) The

[Zen] Re: New Zen :NOW

2012-10-06 Thread desert_woodworker
Merle, Clothes make the Man!; but I prefer naked books. I keep the dust jackets in a pile, at the city recycling and reclamation center. They get in the way of my reading. Maybe I should pile them at home for resale; a used book is worth more if it has its jacket. A man in this hot desert

[Zen] Re: New Zen: on the run

2012-10-06 Thread desert_woodworker
Merle, WHAT mind? John didn't get that _that_ is the game. Maybe didn't live long enuf. Or, look at it a different way. --Joe PS (song OK, as far as it goes/went). Merle Lester merlewiitpom@... wrote: remember the old song: mind games: john lennon?

[Zen] Re: Baby Photo

2012-10-06 Thread desert_woodworker
Big-Bang is a theory that will probably be replaced nine times in the next millennium. Ad infinitum. Wait and see! And, the photo might be concocted. Some latter-day wannabee Immortal PhotoShopped it, I suspect. ;-) --Joe Edgar Owen edgarowen@... wrote: This btw is my baby photo too,

[Zen] Re: attachments: what about the promised land?

2012-10-05 Thread desert_woodworker
Merle, Mountain Snow Flake, you are the best, when all is said, asked, done, and re-done. Alan Watts talked about The Absolute, and called it: The WHICH than which there is no WHICHER. Not bad, I'll allow. --Joe PS Pick a Dharma name, any Dharma name! From these 52 cards. ;-) Merle

[Zen] Re: Isis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-10-05 Thread desert_woodworker
Merle, I dunno. I am not an Egypt-o-lo-gist, here, in this life. Now, do you (two/ONE) have the same hair-color? ;-) And... What can you tell us about the constellation ORION? And, vis-a-vis the structure of the Great PYRAMID, what is the significance of the angle of The Descending Passage

[Zen] Re: October News from New Dimensions Radio

2012-10-05 Thread desert_woodworker
Merle, I used to love listening to Michael Toms, and sometime his wife, for 30 years or so. Are they still around, doing the show of that name? --Joe Merle Lester merlewiitpom@... wrote: New Dimensions (Radio) Current Book Discussion: any Zen book

[Zen] Re: gods

2012-10-05 Thread desert_woodworker
Merle, Okay, Cousin, but what about arc tangent of a half? Key to the business; It is not a sighting tunnel to the North Star. That squelches a LOT of baloney! I mean, it REVEALS balogna. ;-) My professional (ass)essment tonight. ;-) While looking at Polaris this instant, --Joe PS

[Zen] Re: Old Zen, New Zen

2012-10-05 Thread desert_woodworker
Bill, What you (one) receive(s) by way of training depends on who you study with. I have felt for long that the western successors of Japanese teachers were beginning to really water-down the practice, and its integrity. (It will bounce back after a few generations, I suspect. The world is