Hi ED: How are you keeping?. I don't fully understand your statement. Can you elaborate a little bit more?. I know I tend to use a lot the And this is to point it out that that specific experience is personal to myself and anyone else. It's an "I" free from "I"!. Still a casual zen practicioner and less and less zen buddhist practicioner. Nice to hear from you. Mayka --- On Mon, 4/10/10, ED <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church. To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 4 October, 2010, 16:05 Hi Mayka, Welcome to the real world of humans, whose intrinsic non-Buddha nature (as it has evolved) is self-interest. ;-) --ED --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordel...@...> wrote: > > Hi Mike and Everyone! > If everytime one has a dissapointment in any established religious > institution whether that dissapointment was in Christian, Muslim, Jew, > Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, etc, etc institutions: and afterwards acts as a > destructor towards the institution from which dissapointment took place, then > it doesn't sound a very wise way of doing towards oneself. > I certainly include myself in this unwise way of doing as I've recently > experienced a great dissapointment in the TNH institutions which lead me to > criticism of them. Though never as irrespetuos or destructive as many > atheists show themselves ugly behaviour in front of Christianity. This > harmful way of doing doesn't affect the instituions established but just to > the ones who carries away such violent shows. > When I look deeply into myself, I realice that it was me all the way alone >who built up a pedestal to that institution. It was me who caused herself the >dissapointment for building a pedestal of "holiness, peace....to the >institution". They weren't the ones!!!. Having seeing this within myself I am >now grateful having found that institution from which I was introduced in the >walk of zen buddhism. > I was ever dissapointed in any Christian institutions because I never built > up a pedestal to the instituion!. And so my experience was always healthy > and positive. It was positive because I never put that instituion in a > pedestal. I saw it for what it was. And so I could get all the benefit from > it and never the dissapointment and the anger and frustation that comes with > it. > Mayka
