Bill:
Who are the responsible ones who accept those new words to be added in the
English Dictionaries?
Mayka
--- On Fri, 29/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
:
From: Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 29 October, 2010, 3:40
Mayka,
Sorry, I was wrong. But in Asia here, bringing cigarettes from one country to
another involves heavy duty above the quota
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Bill:
Who are the responsible ones who accept those new words to be added in the
English Dictionaries?
Mayka
--- On Fri, 29/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm
billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 29 October, 2010, 12:01
Mayka,
It’s just the various publishers and editors of the various dictionaries.
There is no one, single
) : )
Mike
From: Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 26 October, 2010 8:01:25
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Mike:
Do you drink beer with alcohol or without it?. If it's with alcohol, do you
mean that you
Euros for each packet. .
Mayka
--- On Wed, 27/10/10, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
From: Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 October, 2010, 22:31
Mayka,
I am sorry your continued request
is enhanced in this way. Mouth or lips
don't touch the container. So everbody in a group share the same container
drink.
Mayka
--- On Wed, 27/10/10, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
From: Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date
but something else.
Mayka
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 3:48
Mayka,
What you say below
...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 12:35
Mayka,
Beer *without* alcohol?!! What kind of an abomination is that?!! I'm
Welsh/Australian so I've never come
Bill,
Are you sure 7 UP contains beer?
Anthony
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 10:48 AM
Mayka,
I am surprised you can get cigarettes sent from Spain to the UK without being
accused of smuggling.
Anthony
--- On Fri, 29/10/10, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
From: Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum
bought it)
That is English, after it has been adulterated effectively by William the
Conqueror.
Anthony
--- On Fri, 29/10/10, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
From: Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday
Anthony
I'm not doing anything against the UK law if this is what you are suggesting.
Mayka
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
From: Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 23:13
:
From: Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 29 October, 2010, 8:32 AM
Anthony
I'm not doing anything against the UK law if this is what you are suggesting.
Mayka
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, Anthony Wu wu
, 2010 9:17 PM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
Sent from a cell phone
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:25, billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
However, I encourage you and others to read and discuss it if you
--- On Wed, 27/10/10, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
From: Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 October, 2010, 1:00
Mayka,
The alcohol free beer may taste the same, but never 'feels' the same
.
Mayka
--- On Wed, 27/10/10, ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
From: ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 October
, before you
try to quit again, go to China to have full satisfaction first. A pack of
Marlboro is only 10 yuan (Eur 1).
Anthony
--- On Wed, 27/10/10, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
From: Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum
/10/10, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
From: Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 October, 2010, 7:52 PM
Anthony:
I wrote incorrectly:
It's mostly a summer drink and can't assure
kinds of stupid stories by
mahayana and Tantra.
Anthony
--- On Wed, 27/10/10, siska_...@yahoo.com siska_...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: siska_...@yahoo.com siska_...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 October, 2010, 11:24 PM
Hi
Anthony,
What is your religious/spiritual orientation?
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Wu wu...@... wrote:
Siska,
Zen seems to be different from Buddhism, but I think it is the same,
less the name Buddha. Sakyamuni Buddha preached for 45 years to instruct
people to give
ED,
I already spoke of my religious/spiritual orientation in my remark below.
Anthony
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 6:18 AM
Anthony,
Is it implied in your post below that you are a non-spiritual,
non-religious zen practitioner?
Or is it something else?
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Wu wu...@... wrote:
ED,
I already spoke of my religious/spiritual orientation in my remark
below.
Anthony
ED,
Cross out the two 'non's and add 'bad' before the the 'zen'.
Anthony
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 6:39 AM
Anthony
: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:29 PM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Chris:
Yes there is some expressions, colloquialisms and slang that are used in
America and not in the UK and viceverse. The real trouble for a foreign
student studying English
: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Anthony Wu
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:19 PM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Mayka,
Beer mixed with anything else won't taste good. Cocktails are not made from
beer, but wisky
, 2010 7:37 PM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
The great master Louis Armstrong.
http://www.lyrics007.com/Louis%20Armstrong%20Lyrics/Let's%20Call%20The%20Whole%20Thing%20Off%20Lyrics.html
It is an example of some
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
Sent from a cell phone
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:25, billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
However, I encourage you and others to read and discuss it if you wish.
Fortunately, the forum is an entertaining outlet for my writing and reading
desires without the give and take over
Bill,
The differences in pronouciation signify class difference, which
were/are a huge issue in England (and the world over) in conjugal
alliances.
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
Mayka,
It's from an old song entitled LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF. It's
Definitions of folks on the Web:
o your parents; he wrote to his folks every day
o folk: people in general (often used in the plural);
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn%\
That's fine.
I, having spent a good amount of time in book groups, find that 'give and
take' over a book that multiple people have read, never fails to bring me
some understanding of perspectives I would not have arrived at in seclusion.
Not every one's cup of tea, I'm sure. (Another
And, you would agree that zen suggests that one 'Carpe Diem', regardless
of the ambiance one finds oneself in (and has most probably contributed
to creating)?
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Chris Austin-Lane ch...@... wrote:
I, having spent a good amount of time in book groups,
summer and mixed
with 2/3 of gaseosa ( a refreshing sparkling lemon drink) because it's very
refreshing.
Mayka
--- On Tue, 26/10/10, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
From: Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday
If anything, zen suggests to me Not Always So and to look at the given
situation, not relying on pre-formulated rules.
Carpe Diem fits the situation sometimes, definitely.
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
And, you would agree that zen suggests that
...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 26 October, 2010, 11:25
Mayka,
It’s from an old song entitled LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF. It's basically
about two people who are engaged to be married but find they have so many
differences
-lane.net
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 26 October, 2010, 19:02
That's fine.
I, having spent a good amount of time in book groups, find that 'give and take'
over a book that multiple people have read, never fails to bring me some
Ed,
I didn't say 'folk' was grammatically incorrect. I pointed out it doesn't
rhyme with 'strokes'.
.Bill!
From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of ED
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:28 AM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen
!
From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of ED
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:43 AM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Bill,
What's the Zen Forum about?
Thanks, ED
--- In Zen_Forum
Thanks Mike for the English correction.
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 3:42
Mayka,
Different strokes
Bill:
What does Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to mean?.
Mayka
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 5:00
.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 5:00
Ed,
To the best of my knowledge the Yahoo! Zen Forum was established by Albert
Batista in 2002. Al does not participate often now, but has entrusted the
Moderator's role of the forum
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane ch...@... wrote:
I find reading science to be a habit I have long cultivated, as it
makes certain more physical chains of cause and effect more intelligible
to me.
Since I am engaged in practice now, reading science about practice is
a pretty
Chris said: That expectation alas has been a source of suffering for me,
...
Chris, what a wonderful gift of insight to you from the Zen Forum, no?
;-)
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane ch...@... wrote:
... Also, apropos to this thread, one of the expectations I had
.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 5:00
Ed,
To the best of my knowledge the Yahoo! Zen Forum was established by Albert
Batista in 2002. Al does not participate often now, but has entrusted
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane ch...@... wrote:
I find reading science to be a habit I have long cultivated, as it
makes certain more physical chains of cause and effect more intelligible
to me.
Since I am engaged in practice now, reading science about practice is
a pretty
...@btinternet.com
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 25 October, 2010 20:11:02
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Bill, ED and all:
Bill wrote:
For me the Zen Forum is an e-sangha, somewhere I can go to discuss zen and
other related subjects with others.
Mayka:
Very glad to hear you say
The 90% is like zazen - experiential learning. --ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, mike brown uerusub...@... wrote:
Mayka, After a hard days work there's nothing better than to have a
few beers and stir things up here a bit. It's 90% ego entertainment and
about 10% (probably less)
Only minus the sore arse and fired-up Mayka.
Mike
From: ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 26 October, 2010 0:51:04
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
The 90% is like zazen - experiential learning. --ED
Chris,
Whether from the book or not, say something about zen that you hope will
spark a discussion you may like to have.
--ED
In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane ch...@... wrote:
Also, apropos to this thread, one of the expectations I had of zen
forum was that some one else
...@austin-lane.net wrote:
From: ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 13:37
The great master Louis Armstrong
Excellent. Al is great, and his disciple Bill is second great.
Anthony
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010
My correction. Edgar is great, and his co-moderator Bill is second great.
Anthony
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
From: Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: billsm...@hhs1963.org
Date: Monday, 25 October
for they
practice 24 hours over 24 mindfulness.
Anyway, thanks for your trust and asking me.
Mayka
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, Mark Perew mpe...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Mark Perew mpe...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 14:50
, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 16:37
Mayka,
After a hard days work there's nothing better than to have a few beers and stir
things up here
to it. As ED said:
Different strokes for different people.
Mayka
--- On Sun, 24/10/10, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 24 October, 2010, 4:49
Bill
theological
religions are having now!. And science won't be the responsible of that.
Dogmatism is.
--- On Sun, 24/10/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
From: billsm...@hhs1963.org billsm...@hhs1963.org
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
To: Zen_Forum
Mike/Bill/Mayka,
From my perspective you three have now shifted into the traditional,
confident, Western, JudeoChrislamic, innocent-victim, finger-pointing
mind-set.
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Maria Lopez flordel...@... wrote:
Bill Wrote: Science has merely replaced
Mayka, now we are getting on the same wavelength. --ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Maria Lopez flordel...@... wrote:
Mike: Fair enough if you need the little hand from the scientific
articles to get where you can't with your zen practice alone. I think as
Bill here and science
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
Mike,
You bring up some important points to which I want to respond:
[Mike] Well, I can't speak for others, but this zen practioner finds
such articles both interesting and helpful.
[Bill!] I can understand that, but interesting and
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
Sent from a cell phone
On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:39, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
[ED] I am for demystifying zen, so that practitioners (prior to kensho)
possess an understanding of what zen is about and why they expend so much
time and effort sitting on a zafu,
Chris, everyone will see what they see in the fullness of time - and is
that any of our business?
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane ch...@... wrote:
If they are sitting holding onto a goal based on stuff they read,
whether that be from Three Pillars of Zen or Zen and
:39 PM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
Mike,
You bring up some important points to which I want to respond:
[Mike] Well, I can't speak for others, but this zen practioner finds such
articles both
Bill!,
[Mike] Well, I can't speak for others, but this zen practioner finds such
articles both interesting and helpful.
[Bill!] I can understand that, but interesting and helpful for what? Certainly
not for your zen practice.
I see my zen practice as a 24/7 thing (including the fast amounts
Mayka,
Different strokes for different people.
It's 'Different strokes for different folks'. The 'strokes' rhymes with 'folks'
: )
Mike
Bill,
What's the Zen Forum about?
Thanks, ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
Ed,
The one constant theme that runs through your comments below is that
`prior
to kensho (glimpsing Buddha Nature) it is okay to engage in intellectual
activities that you think help you
, 2010 9:43 AM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Bill,
What's the Zen Forum about?
Thanks, ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
Ed,
The one constant theme that runs through your comments below is that
`prior
to kensho (glimpsing Buddha
Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to.Bill!
From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of mike brown
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:43 AM
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Mayka,
Different strokes for different people.
It's
@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Bill!,
[Mike] Well, I can't speak for others, but this zen practioner finds such
articles both interesting and helpful.
[Bill!] I can understand that, but interesting and helpful for what?
Certainly not for your zen practice.
I see my zen practice
Ed,
You keep posting content such as this. Do you think having a scientific
explanation of how zen meditation affects the body is helpful to zen
practitioners?
.Bill!
From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of ED
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 11:42 AM
Bill,
If it's not of value to anyone, it will sink to the bottom of the stack
and disappear.
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
Ed,
You keep posting content such as this. Do you think having a scientific
explanation of how zen meditation affects the body is
Sent: Sun, 24 October, 2010 10:59:24
Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain
Ed,
You keep posting content such as this. Do you think having a scientific
explanation of how zen meditation affects the body is helpful to zen
practitioners?
…Bill!
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