Re: [Zen] Are Retarded Kids Sentient Beings

2008-02-21 Thread Cynth
Then you are not earning your pay. You are leeching off of the system just like everyone else where you work. I feel sorry for the kids under your care, cause they are stuck with people who don't give a f**k about them. Cynth Charlie wrote: At the High School where I teach, I often have

Re: [Zen] Are Retarded Kids Sentient Beings

2008-02-20 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Charlie, Thank you for your post. Anything from our hearts are precious. Yes, retarded kids are no different than anyone else. At least it is so in our school. We are all retarded somehow to some degree. We all experienced periods of being controlled by impulses, physical handicaps,

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] Are Retarded Kids Sentient Beings

2008-02-20 Thread Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
Hi Jackson, My Teacher started his teaching in Taiwan. He does not speak English. All his work were done in Taiwan. I am sorry, if I was not clear. I too am retarded somehow, sometime, somewhere. How awaken are we? When we walk out the door, can we see every tree? When we are in a