Re: Fudge

[John M. Bennett]

Hmmm, some of those Zen monks would/will enjoy sake from time to time, and then there's what they called "tea head" obtained from drinking lots of cha.

John

At 01:38 PM 11/29/2005, you 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 t! his 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

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