Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-26 Thread mike brown
No, that's Mrs Thatcher and she,s not the Buddha - she's the Anti-Christ. Mike From: Anthony Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2008 9:23:15 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? What passp

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-26 Thread Anthony Wu
What passport does he hold?   BNO (British Nationality Overseas)?   --- On Sun, 26/10/08, Edgar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Edgar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, 26 October, 2008, 10:39 PM

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-26 Thread Anthony Wu
From: Edgar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, 26 October, 2008, 8:06 PM Hi Mike, I spoke to Buddha this morning and he recommends English on an English group. He also said he never learned Japanese since he li

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-26 Thread Edgar Owen
Yea, he gets around doesn't he! On Oct 26, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Mayka wrote: Hi Edgar; What a coincedence, I was also speaking to Buddha this morning and couldn't figured out a word because mi mind was in turmoil! Mayka --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Edgar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-26 Thread Edgar Owen
Hi Mike, I spoke to Buddha this morning and he recommends English on an English group. He also said he never learned Japanese since he lived in India all his life. :-) Edgar On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:23 PM, mike brown wrote: Hi Edgar, >Would all you baka gaijin stop showing off your la

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-25 Thread Anthony Wu
Hi Maiku-san,   Komarimashita. Watashiwa anataga Eikoku aruiwa America ni sundeiruto omoimashita.   What do you think of Daisetsu Suzuki?   Regards, Anthony --- On Sun, 26/10/08, mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-25 Thread mike brown
Hi Karin/Jackson/Charlie, >mike brown < Muzakashi sugi ne! > > >Sounds like Sonny Chiba! Actually, it's Uma Thurman. Uma.

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-25 Thread mike brown
Hi Edgar, >Would all you baka gaijin stop showing off your language abilities and get >back to Zen please? Nan de? Watashi wa ooki ego o motte iru kara 'showing off' ga suki desu! >Remember true Zen cannot be expressed in nihongo! True, and Buddha himself was the devil for trying to do so. W

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-25 Thread mike brown
Hi Anthony, Hai, mada Nara ni sunde iru. Yon nen kan desu. Demo Nihongo wa ichiban muzakashi kotoba ja nai. Welsh wa Nihongo yoori muzakashi da yo! Mike

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-24 Thread Endymion
Why not? I still plan on winking at the bearded, hairy men I meet. I'd love to be Jeff Hopkins' boy toy-well he IS 13 years older than I am. (ever see his picture on the back of The Tantric Distinction? I'd give anything to finish unbuttoning his shirt.) In Googling Zen Buddhism, I saw plenty o

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-24 Thread Edgar Owen
kotoba desu. Nihonjinmo soo iimasu. Are you still living in Nara? You say sundeiru. Regards, Anthony --- On Fri, 24/10/08, mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-24 Thread Anthony Wu
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, 24 October, 2008, 1:49 AM Konban wa Anthony san, Ah, sou desu ka. Dono ken Tanjikan desu ka? Watashi wa Nara ni sunde iru. Shite iru? Dono gurai Tanjikan ni sunde imashita ka? Ima mada Nihongo o

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread mike brown
ego for a spell). - Original Message From: Anthony Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, 23 October, 2008 22:22:28 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? Hi Mike, Watashiwa Hong Kong de Nihongoo benkyoshimashita. Shikashi totemo hetadesu. N

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread mike brown
?? Let me just take this to the Bat computers in the Bat Cave to make sense of. Mike - Original Message From: Mac A. Roni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, 24 October, 2008 0:56:36 Subject: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? "Bill Smart" > I also

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread mike brown
Hi Chris, Taking it very easy, my man. Mike. - Original Message From: cid830 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, 24 October, 2008 0:51:05 Subject: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? Mike, I do. I tend to take people at their word. No matter how outrageous. Ev

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread Endymion
And please make sure you check all the other countries with Hispanic speaking zen practitioners in it. You know like Paraguay and Chile and Costa Rica and maybe even Mexico, among others. So you mean to say there's documented evidence of Zen masters REFUSING to allow blacks and hispanics to sit

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread Anthony Wu
Mayka,   Before I see Bill's reply, I would say, 'zen - like magic, difies logics'.   Regards, Anthony --- On Thu, 23/10/08, Mayka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Mayka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 5:45

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread Anthony Wu
e brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 3:27 PM Hi Anthony, "Wakaranai". .. Anata no Nihongo jouzu desu ne. Doko de Nihongo

RE: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread BillSmart
Just for clarification... I did say 'There are no Black zen masters'; but what I didn't say was that there are no White, Latino, Arab, Asia, male/female, left/right-handed, democrat/republican, etc., zen masters. If you believe that there are adepts that could/should be called zen masters, then t

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread mike brown
4:12 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? Wakaranai -- I don't know. I like humor. Regards, Anthony --- On Thu, 23/10/08, mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] co.uk> wrote: From: mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] co.uk> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread Anthony Wu
Wakaranai -- I don't know. I like humor.   Regards, Anthony --- On Thu, 23/10/08, mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: mike brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 3:20 PM

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread mike brown
--- From: Anthony Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, 23 October, 2008 16:05:13 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters? I agree. We should stop that senseless conversation. Oppression and color are different things, though unfortunately they sometimes are

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-23 Thread Anthony Wu
I agree. We should stop that senseless conversation. Oppression and color are different things, though unfortunately they sometimes are linked to each other. We should try to solve it in a zen way.   Regards, Anthony --- On Thu, 23/10/08, Daryl E Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Daryl E C

RE: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-22 Thread BillSmart
Mac. A. Roni, If you wouldn't spend so much time being a side dish you'd know that no one has offered any lists of zen Masters of any kind. I certainly hope no one does. Try to keep up! ...Bill! From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac A. Roni Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-22 Thread mike brown
Personally, I'd like to have seen Mr T become President instead of just being George Bush's poliical advisor and speech writer. Mike. - Original Message From: Jackson Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 13:05:25 Subject: [Zen] Re

RE: [Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-21 Thread BillSmart
Chris, I'm talking about his buddha nature...Bill! --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Smart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...> Show us your face before your mother was born.< Chris wrote: >Bill, >Are you talking about his mother? >Chris Current Book Di