Very interesting..give kindness, and one gets a slap across the face. JMJM, look out or you'll get more. Be unkind, and one is rewarded with gentleness. Amazin'..in fact, I've experienced both sides/ends myself during my young days in the Australian Army
I think Mike has had enough and he's ready to move on. ED being the typical dualistically-minded Semite suddenly realizes the evil of his ways and wishes to be forgiven for his 'sins'. Or, ED could have been having a good belly-laugh as he typed below, but who knows? If I'm right about Mike above, then BigMind might have taken over. However, in my opinion, watch the insignificant 'small self'...as that could be behind the words of reproof towards ED below. When dealing with irrational creatures, the sounds they emit soon become insignificant. I simply watch for movement...for the waters of the waves do not discuss with each other before, during, and after crashing onto each other ED values the 'small self', as exemplified by the online behaviour below, unless he meant below as a joke. If my assumptions are correct, then perhaps to lose 'kensho-tinged' Master Mike would just be too much and ED's 'small self' cannot let go of the attachment. After all, the 'small self' has to hang onto something, no? I've worked with children of ages 0-5 years. Babies being babies, they do what they do. When mother is gone, he cries. When she comes back, he's happy. This is natural for a baby. There is nothing dualistic about this. One even sees this with baby animals in the zoo. Normally, how mother and young interact with each other is BigMind in operation. However, we as adults in this forum are just that..adults. We don't need to be needy. Unfortunately, influences from Semite and other cultures teach us otherwise. Henceforth, we find difficulties due to dualistic notions we have grown up with. It's hard to say whether becoming an ordained Zen monk will take care of this problem. If it did, I would have.. - left all my worldly belongings - made myself a robe - bought a small cheap bowl, or bowl-like pot with a lid - walked out there in the outside world, ready to face misery and on-coming death from from even the frost in the middle of winter Would I have done the above? Heck no! Like ED above and below, I'm also guilty of dualism Buddha be praised Mel --- On Fri, 25/3/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote: Mike, Whatever mercy and compassion you have to spare will be gratefully accepted. --ED --- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: ED, Sure, I can forgive you for those. I can also forgive you for being a pompous, smug arsehole too, if you'd like? Mike --- In [email protected], ED wrote: I had wrongly assumed that persons who had realised Buddha Nature would have also attained the state of Muga: nonself, egolessness, and so would not at all have been offended by a straight-forward question. Please forgive me for my lack of perspicacity and compassion.
