Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-15 Thread mike brown
Yep, there's certainly alot of cheese here to catch a mouse from time to time. Er, although not from me of course.. - Original Message From: Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, 15 January, 2008 5:01:57 AM Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: no death

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-15 Thread Al
From: "mike brown" No way. Never behind their backs. I am hoping they will someday see how friendly and gay we have become and return for another round of cat and mouse zen. Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today! Yahoo! Groups L

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-15 Thread mike brown
008 3:57:42 AM Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: no death From: "mike brown" . Those guys were never victims. However, they did run off to parts unknown. Fudo came back briefly at some point and then disappeared. Unfortunately, all these events happened before we had our video cam set-up in the Do

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-15 Thread Al
From: "mike brown" . Those guys were never victims. However, they did run off to parts unknown. Fudo came back briefly at some point and then disappeared. Unfortunately, all these events happened before we had our video cam set-up in the Dojo, so we do not have many records. The Jarvis incident w

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-15 Thread mike brown
ay, 15 January, 2008 1:32:00 AM Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: no death From: "Bill Smart" Unless we get a bona-fide monk to join our ranks, I will not participate any longer. I have not run off any monks since 2004, and that is a long time to be without religious persecution. Feel my pain.

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-15 Thread Al
From: "Bill Smart" Unless we get a bona-fide monk to join our ranks, I will not participate any longer. I have not run off any monks since 2004, and that is a long time to be without religious persecution. Feel my pain. If there are any compassionate Bodhisattvas out there, join up so that I can

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-14 Thread mike brown
Very true. I just try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes I find sedation takes me thru' the leaner times. Boo hoo (who). - Original Message From: Bill Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, 14 January, 2008 10:33:04 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: no death

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-14 Thread mike brown
Bill wrote: >Boo who? Why are you upset? __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-12 Thread mike brown
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RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-10 Thread mike brown
I'm not sure, but that kinda looks like a mouse with an eye disability playing tic-tac-toe with a bald man. Still, I can't do any better so I guess that could be the new virtual 'nose-tweaking' method. Now, I challenge anyone to produce a bodhisattva ferrying a sentient being over to the other s

RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-10 Thread Bill Smart
On Thursday, Jan 10 Mike Brown wrote: >Yes. What a pity you couldn't tweak his nose. You can do much better ferrying like  that. Excellent idea! Now what would be the key-strokes for 'tweak nose'? How about ;>#O ? Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are readi

RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-09 Thread mike brown
Bill wrote: >I was not right, I spoke too much. Yes. What a pity you couldn't tweak his nose. You can do much better ferrying like that. - Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now.

RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-09 Thread Bill Smart
On Thursday, January 10 Jue Miao Jing Ming wrote: >Bill, you are right. Yet Hanh is not wrong. >Ten thousand dharma for ten thousand hearts. Each is a beauty in itself. >Ferrying sentient beings from a formed domain into a formless domain is always >a challenge. >We can only seed the cause s

Re: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-09 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Bill, you are right.  Yet Hanh is not wrong. Ten thousand dharma for ten thousand hearts. Each is a beauty in itself. Ferrying sentient beings from a formed domain into a formless domain is always a challenge. We can only seed the cause  sigh Bill Smart wrote: On

RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-08 Thread mike brown
Bill wrote: >One of his students, Mahakashyapa, smiled indicating he had >‘received’ >Buddha’s teachings. He became the first Patriarch of zen. Jeff Bill is like a prudent old grandpa who only offers you only one sweet knowing full well that anymore will make your teeth fall out. But also h

RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Smart
On Wed, Jan 09 Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Hello Bill, >Thanks for your reply. I have come across the Zen view that, as you >say, "you don't have to understand anything". Why, though, did Thich >Nhat Hanh, a Zen Buddhist, deal with this "no birth-no death" in his >book? The impression

RE: [Zen] Re: no death

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Smart
Vladimir, I bow to you.Bill! From: Vladimir Musicki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:27 AM To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Zen] Re: no death Bill Smart ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: << Only THIS! And to experience TH