[Zen] Post Your Photos!

2008-02-04 Thread Jackson Masters
Has anyone been posting their photos? There is a photo album for members if you visit the yahoogroups page for this group. It is interesting to see other members photos. Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today! Yahoo! Groups Link

[Zen] Wealth Ministry

2008-02-04 Thread Jackson Masters
I was watching a TV show which interviewed a few of those modern christian wealth ministers and it was disgusting. Their unabashed philosophy is that God/Jesus wants them to be wealthy because it is a blessing from God. So they tell their followers to send them money and then they openly flaunt

[Zen] Re: Spring Zen Training

2008-02-06 Thread Jackson Masters
had to train, study, go to school and pass licensing examinations in order to do business in my field and to hold myself out as having been trained to be an endodontist. It should be no different for you. I am happy to present my credentials when asked. Thank you, Jackson Masters Sandusky

[Zen] Re: BIG I & little i

2008-02-07 Thread Jackson Masters
Jue Miao Jing Ming - > There is this big I, which takes care of the universe, the sun, the moon, the air, the water, the plants, the animals, humans, etc. Under the care of the big I, there exists a lot of little i, which are trying hard to put the big I under a microscope> I really like what y

[Zen] Re: Pretense

2008-02-19 Thread Jackson Masters
Jue Miao Jing Ming - wrote: Thank you Sensei. I really really like the way you put it. With your permission, I shall forward to two groups. > I missed the part where he gave his permission. That should have been the condition precedent to your post? Is this one of those koans, like I will ask

[Zen] Re: What It Is In 2008

2008-02-20 Thread Jackson Masters
"cid830" themselves. sometimes I feel you have respond on such a level that the offender may understand. > Humbly,< > As a black man, I am offended that you think you have to speak up for me. I can speak up for myself. I do not need to be spoken for. Current Book Discussion: any Zen book

Re: [Zen] Are Retarded Kids Sentient Beings

2008-02-20 Thread Jackson Masters
Jue Miao Jing Ming - > My Teacher for the first 15 years set up meditation classes in the prisons and the drub rehabs.>> Did you ever work in the Federal Prison in Memphis, Tennessee? I am not sure if you are comparing people in prison to the mentally retarded, however I would like to add that

Re: [Zen] Shango/Voodoo

2008-09-01 Thread Jackson Masters
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON ANOTHER FORUM?!! > That's what I said to myself too when I saw the dumb white cracker motherfucker on the black buddhists forum and I said to myself, now that dumb sonofabitch ain't no brother, what the fuck he be doin over here? Well it wasn

Re: [Zen] Shango/Voodoo

2008-09-01 Thread Jackson Masters
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON ANOTHER FORUM?!! > That's what I said to myself too when I saw the dumb white cracker motherfucker on the black buddhists forum and I said to myself, now that dumb sonofabitch ain't no brother, what the fuck he be doin over here? Well it wasn

[Zen] Christian Question

2008-09-15 Thread Jackson Masters
I need help. I have been working for this ultra-Christian, ultra-right wing asshole who is the epitomie of hypocrisy. He hardly ever comes to work. He claims his step-daughter is a 25 year old virgin and yet she lives with her boyfriend and regularly goes on trips with him. She also works her

Re: [Zen] Most Zen TV Series?

2008-09-26 Thread Jackson Masters
I think that the Bernie Mac show was the best Zen show on TV. He was funny and yet he had interesting lessons to share. Very sad that the brother died last month. Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about

[Zen] Re: Moral & moralistic

2008-10-08 Thread Jackson Masters
Jue Miao Jing Ming - > "Being moral is to act spontaneously in the interest of others..." > > I thought that was called ALTRUISTIC? Sounds like those Yale professors have been spending too much time on Wall Street to know what is moral. Current Book Dis

[Zen] Re: What's after Satori

2008-10-08 Thread Jackson Masters
mike brown <> Did you have a bad experience at a monastry when you stayed in Japan? > Do Buddhist Monks molest kids too?? Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visi

[Zen] Re: Beliefs vs reality in children

2008-10-17 Thread Jackson Masters
Edgar Owen > This is important re the nature of consciousness as it extends the early work of Piaget in studying how the representation of the world arises and develops in childhood. > Piaget? Talk about OLD-SCHOOL. who even studies that any more??? Curre

[Zen] Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-20 Thread Jackson Masters
Are there any? Is Zen the last bastion of racism? Now that Obama is going to become President, the Zen temples need to start approving more blacks as Roshis! The Black Man has arrived!! Move over whitey! Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you rece

[Zen] Obama, Farrkhan, & Ali: Muslim Pals

2008-10-21 Thread Jackson Masters
Below is the book William Ayers wrote A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court By William Ayers Published by Beacon Press, 1998 Page 82 "Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama. Mini

[Zen] Re: Black Zen Masters?

2008-10-21 Thread Jackson Masters
"cid830" <> Are you talking about his mother? > Laugh now whitey, once Obama is elected President, the Black Man in America will walk and talk with authority, and the whitey will bend and kneel to the black man. We are the power now, man. We are the Black Power! Whitey will be second class

[Zen] Zen Losers

2008-11-02 Thread Jackson Masters
Are most young people that seek "enlightenment" and buy the Zen books usually losers?? I mean, who hasn't been to the Barnes and Noble bookstores and seen some youth with a scraggly beard (a splotchy hairy face, not really a beard) or some girl with hairy legs and under-arms, sitting there rea

[Zen] Christmas Secret Santa Gift Exchange

2008-11-07 Thread Jackson Masters
OK, so who is signing up for the Secret Santa gift exchange? Almost everyone here is not Buddhist. There are like 2 Muslims. Not sure if there are any Jews on this list? So if you want to exchange a gift, sign up now. We will go with Dollar Store value. Blind system. You sign up, and then the l