ED, To answer your question as I understand it, then yes, if a person blames others and/or praises themselves they will almost certainly experience unpleasant consequences. In the act of praise/blame one is reinforcing their separatness from others with all the problems we know that entails.
Mike ________________________________ From: ED <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 24 March, 2011 5:36:35 Subject: [Zen] Re: Add Nothing Extra We appear to have got our wires crossed. The simple and obvious thought I intended to get across was: If you blame others or praise yourself there may be unpleasant consequences - or not. --- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > Isn't that the Wiccan motto? I'm pretty sure no one in Zen ever said: "Do > as *you* please." > > Do as needs doing, sure. Don't worry, sure. --- In [email protected], ED wrote: > The lesson is: "Do as you please, but do not complain about being an innocent victim of the law of cause and effect - or do complain!" --- In [email protected], ChrisAustinLane <chris@...> wrote: > >The lesson is 'never blame others, never praise yourself.'
