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--- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote:
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> That was possible. However, it was also possible that came from their karma
> from previous lives. Otherwise, why do you think Mazart was able to compose
> music at the age of 5?
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> --- On Wed, 24/8/11, Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 24 August, 2011, 6:02 AM
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> --- On Tue, 23/8/11, Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote:
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> From: Anthony Wu <wuasg@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 22:51
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> Bad guys? Too many to enumerate: Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Chong Il.. and last but
> not least, Anthony Wu.
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> --- On Tue, 23/8/11, Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
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> From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 9:02 PM
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> I wouldn't know either how to make medicines and ointments from poison plants
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> Which bad guys are you referring to in your post?.Â
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> Mayka
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> --- On Mon, 22/8/11, Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote:
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> From: Anthony Wu <wuasg@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 22 August, 2011, 22:52
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> Nature provides us with anger as well as compassion. Plant poison can
> be used for our benefit, but I don't see anger can be utilized in any good
> way. In Christianity, good and bad people are both created by God. How do we
> treat bad guys?
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> Anthony
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> --- On Tue, 23/8/11, Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
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> From: Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 1:49 AM
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> Nature is wise but the mind of human beings is arrogant and think that knows
> better than nature.  We  don't like the emotion anger and then we invent
> a number of things to rid off it. Nature also gives plants highly poison
> and yet the clever ones have learnt how to use that poison to
> create medicines, oinments with it.  Couldn't be done with anger the
> same?. If nature has provided us with the seed of anger there must be a
> reason for that.
> MaykaÂ
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> --- On Mon, 22/8/11, Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote:
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> From: Anthony Wu <wuasg@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 22 August, 2011, 14:01
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> Yes, anger is something we must deal with correctly. It is one of the three
> poisons: greed, anger and delusion. So Buddha himself thinks it is important.
> I agree it is rooted in the sense of self. To this effect, zen practice
> should be able to at least lessen it, when the sense of self is reduced.
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> --- On Mon, 22/8/11, ED <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
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> From: ED <seacrofter001@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions To All List
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 22 August, 2011, 7:41 PM
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> There is Karma, the Law of Cause and Effect. Anger breeds anger. I am not
> aware of any Buddhist teaching that recommends expressing anger as a means of
> dealing with anger.
> Anger is deeply rooted in the sense of self. The self is angry when the world
> and especially other humans do not meet the self's expectations.
> Excellent brief article on Buddhism and
> Anger:Â http://buddhism.about.com/od/basicbuddhistteachings/a/anger.htm
> "Don't Feed Anger
> It's hard not to act, to remain still and silent while our emotions are
> screaming at us. Anger fills us with edgy energy and makes us want to do
> something. Pop psychology tells us to pound our fists into pillows or to
> scream at the walls to "work out" our anger.
> Thich Nhat Hanh disagrees. "When you express your anger you think that you
> are getting anger out of your system, but that's not true," he said. "When
> you express your anger, either verbally or with physical violence, you are
> feeding the seed of anger, and it becomes stronger in you." Only
> understanding and compassion can neutralize anger."
> --ED
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> --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@> wrote:
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> > Once you eat your cake, you digest it into your body parts, and will be
> > 'one with it'. I don't see why it is impossible.
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> > I think Mayka is asking: How can I eat my cake and have it too.
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> > --ED
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> > > I don't understand your reasoning. 'Negative consequences' of course
> > are in regard to the angry person.
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> > > Anthony
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> > > Negative consequences are unlikely (except to the person
> > himself/herself) if the other person has mastered his/her own anger.
> > > --ED
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> > > You ask: 'Explain different ways of expressing anger out without
> > having the negative consequences of doing so.'
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> > > I think expressing anger always has negative consequences. No way to
> > avoid that.
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> > > Anthony
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