I'm taking it seriously, Ed.
I agree with the first sentence, and it's something that could be just silently
presupposed. Yet, tautologies are good for emphasis in some places; to express
frustration; or, to disclose that you've hit the wall and are flat out of
ideas. I think it's a good state, a good position.
The Rabi might say, though, that the second sentence is surely the source of
the establishment of the madhouse franchise. I'm dubious that you really mean
it. Do you mean it, somehow, though?
I tip my hat to the ancestors and our contemporaries who founded, preserved,
and nourish our very distinct and different traditions, and who have kept them
distinct, each with strong characters, as methods of treatment for those with
different affinities, affiliations, and quirks. Different weirds.
By the way, on another topic, I once heard a rabi -- who was also a zen master
in Maezumi's line -- teach that the only real Kosher FOOD is vegetarian food.
I guess one can't go wrong, there! Very "Buddhist", too.
Tutti a tavola, a mangiare! ("everybody to the table, to eat!", as they say in
my tradition),
Lunch,
--Joe
> "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
> East or West, things are the way they are and are not the way they are
> not. It's all kosher.
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