Believe it or not, I have two packages in my refrigerator of fudge made by monks:
http://www.brigittine.org/ I understand what you mean about Buddhist monks. Some Catholic monks do many things in the line of culinary making. I am often wholly (!) immersed in various Buddhist works, and was brought up a Catholic. Thus . . . --- Thomas savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I take it that you are referring to Christian, thus > Catholic, monks here. Didn't they used to make wine > in monasteries in France? It seems unlikely to me > that Buddhist monks anywhere in the world would make > either winre or fudge as this might be encouraging > intoxication, something which Buddhist monks take a > precept to abstain from. Still the apparent > reference to mindful breathing at the end of your > prose poem makes me wonder. This could be a > completely imaginative work, in which case it > doesn't matter. Nevertheless, since there are > really monks in the so-called real world, regardless > of how sheltered they may or may not live from that > world, it causes one to wonder. > > Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Monks > are making it to sell. I first wrote see, then > frist. What is the matter with this morning except > the > voltage of unkindness streaming through the net. My > fingers on the keyboard pick up messages no one > believes were sent. Dear, Hannah,how deeply did you > absorb? The body chemistry becomes pseudonymous with > fibers in the hundreds in the thousands gradually > self-multiplied. My cha is gen mai. I know the word > for tea from JMB. When monks have finished making > sweets they may return to cells. When monks return > to > cells they pray. The swift rays of the sun are > measured at a speed greater than crying. When monks > come together they enlist the services to form some > thing to sell so they can live quietly at prayer. I > am > on the threshold of ordering five books on the > subject > of sustaining which in the vernacular means making > something last beyond its essence possibly. Speaking > of which, a group of ad execs were brought together > to > find something they might do with a failed heart > drug. > So they looked at what is now Viagra and they asked > what it could do. Then they invented terminology and > sold that terminology. Sow's ear propped up on a > throne. Publication might mean telling everyone what > you will not accept. The priesthood now will now > appear immune to love of self. Would someone kindly > pass the fudge? Formed with full intention, > breathing > in and breathing out. Both individually and in > community. > > > Sheila E. Murphy > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million > songs. Try it free.
