Mayka,
The only relevant post is the one I posted just before this one – the one with the poem in it. …Bill! From: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:zen_fo...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Maria Lopez Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 6:06 PM To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? Bill: What post are you referring to?. Can you repost it again above this one?. I'm always very interested in your sayings. Thanks! Mayka --- On Sat, 7/8/10, billsm...@hhs1963.org <billsm...@hhs1963.org> wrote: From: billsm...@hhs1963.org <billsm...@hhs1963.org> Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, 7 August, 2010, 11:06 Makya, I got this just after I posted my correction on emotions. I hope my latest post explains my experience better than the first. Thanks…Bill! From: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Zen_ fo...@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Maria Lopez Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 4:51 PM To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? Hey Bill; I'd like to introduce myself to you as the "Expertise of Emotions", hehe....Not everything was going to be on oneself detriment about being a highly emotional person. Thought, I do keep and probably I will always keep struggling of taming its intensity and power. I used to despise myself and feel very petit because I wasn't exactly the model to follow by the eastern borrowed models in the west. But seeing and experiencing the coldness, indiference, arrogance, individualism that the lack of emotional imput is doing to so many people, I learnt to value in myself how lively, healthy and natural makes a human being to have its own emotions. It's due to my emotions that I can understand and forgive the mental shit in others as the same mental shit is on me. It's due to emotions that I can choose between cultivate the beautiful flower in me and others or on the contrary grow all what is destructive. I have a choice. Emotions give me that choice. They are all in me, in you and everyone else. A bow to emotions! Mayka --- On Sat, 7/8/10, billsm...@hhs1963. org <billsm...@hhs1963. org> wrote: From: billsm...@hhs1963. org <billsm...@hhs1963. org> Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Saturday, 7 August, 2010, 4:39 Anthony, ‘Disagreeing’ in not an emotion. If I’d said, ‘Your statement makes me MAD! (or sad, or disappointed, or happy, etc…) then that would be a sign of emotion. Treating emotions ‘like a bystander viewing a movie’ is okay with me. That doesn’t mean you don’t get caught up in the movie from time to time. That just means when you leave the theater you don’t think what you’ve just seen is real. So I guess you could say I might ‘hug’ emotions from time to time; but I don’t take them home with me nor try to ‘go all the way’ with them. …Bill! From: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Zen_ fo...@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Wu Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:23 AM To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? Bill, It is premature and 'emotional' for you to disagree. If you don't 'hug' emotions, you are not harmed. Some not only hug them, they make love with them, here comes the harm. I am not saying zen discourages emotions, it treats them like a bystander viewing a movie. Doesn't this conform to your 'system'? Anthony --- On Fri, 6/8/10, billsm...@hhs1963. org <billsm...@hhs1963. org> wrote: From: billsm...@hhs1963. org <billsm...@hhs1963. org> Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Friday, 6 August, 2010, 6:49 PM Anthony, I disagree. What is the harm if you don’t ‘hug’ them (form an attachment to them)? Where have you heard, or what have you read that makes you think zen discourages emotions? …Bill! From: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Zen_ fo...@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Wu Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 4:49 AM To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? Bill, I think zen views emotions arising just like watching a movie as a bystander. You don't hug them. Still, they are harmful. Otherwise, the zen way would be different. Anthony --- On Thu, 5/8/10, billsm...@hhs1963. org <billsm...@hhs1963. org> wrote: From: billsm...@hhs1963. org <billsm...@hhs1963. org> Subject: RE: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Thursday, 5 August, 2010, 9:18 AM Anthony, I don’t know what Buddhism’s view is vis-à-vis emotions, but in my zen practice emotions arise all the time. I don’t try to ‘do away’ with them. I accept them. …Bill! From: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Zen_ fo...@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Wu Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:35 AM To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: Re: [Zen] Where's Mayka? Mayka, I am very glad you came back. As regards the difference you talk about between Christianity and Buddhism, I agree to some extent. The former is more emotional, more intending to help, while the latter is trying to do away with emotions, which they think are harmful. Nevertheless, I think it is too premature for you to give up on TNH, who is a wonderful personality. Anthony --- On Thu, 5/8/10, Maria Lopez <flordel...@btintern et.com> wrote: From: Maria Lopez <flordel...@btintern et.com> Subject: Re: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Thursday, 5 August, 2010, 12:13 AM Hi Mike, Anthony... and all of you. How very kind of you both to ask for me. Not often this happens to me in groups. Hardly ever anyone miss me!. . I've been away in Spain most of July. I have some access to internet but not much and when I did this mail used mainly in groups wasn't available. Besides I wasn't feeling much talkative. I had to renounce to the TNH retreat in the UK because I have some special needs and can travel alone right now...The hardest part here was to finding out once again that the only benefit I get from my sangha is the sitting down together and that once that is finished is better to thanks for the sitting in company and walk away from them as far as possible. By the way and whatever you all say, the Christian Communities do care a lot of more for the vulnerable but the new western buddhist and alike, don't give a dam!. They may be all in maxim red alert urgent need of oxygeno for themselves!. Thank you Mayka --- On Sun, 1/8/10, Anthony Wu <wu...@yahoo. com.sg> wrote: From: Anthony Wu <wu...@yahoo. com.sg> Subject: Re: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Sunday, 1 August, 2010, 23:01 Mike, Zen is everyday life, so it is a project, a hobby and everything you can think about. Yes, I miss Mayka too. Anthony --- On Sun, 1/8/10, mike brown <uerusub...@yahoo. co.uk> wrote: From: mike brown <uerusub...@yahoo. co.uk> Subject: [Zen] Where's Mayka? To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Sunday, 1 August, 2010, 9:48 AM Mayka, I haven't been posting recently (most of the topics are a bit too naff for me - makes Zen sound like a hobby or some kind of a project). Anyway, haven't seen you post for a while and I know you have health issues in your family. Everything ok? 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