Merle, One more story: about 18 years ago, I was on the same train with Bill!'s teacher Mr Frontcorner, going to the sacred Nanhua Temple where the Sixth Patriach preachered dharma for the first time. I saw the embalmed body of the Patriach, then was told it was actually a reproduction. The real one was burned down by the Red Guards. Anthony
________________________________ From: Merle Lester <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 16:31 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA yes i know anthony..i met a chinese woman here ..she was in the red guard when she was 17.... i have read much on this event..i am keen on chinese history... yes bill!..what can we say???????? merle Merle, there are tooo many stories to tell about the cultural revolution. Suffice it to say that you don't dare even to think about the shortcomings of the 'great leader', because you may then unwittingly say something not supposed to say and be killed by the red guard. Thank god, he is now lying peacefully in Tiananmen Square, except when Bill! and I come to worship him. Anthony From: Merle Lester <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 17 September 2012, 17:45 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA finnish... tell me more anthony about the turmoil years ...merle Merle, I went to college in China and spent a total of 18 Years there including those turmoil years of the cultural revolution. I assume the Estonian language is nothing like Russian. What is that like? Anthony From: Merle Lester <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 17 September 2012, 7:00 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA anthony ... i am estonian...i know the ropes the tibetans want to rule their own section... so what...?.... why cannot they?...there are many minorities in china... been to china anthony? been to tibet? merle Merle, No way China will give up the strategically important Tibet. Estonians are a completely different race than Russians. But Tibetans are from the same language family as the Han Chinese. What they do is only simplify the pronunciation from 'rdzogt tschen' to 'dzog chen'. Anthony From: Merle Lester <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 16 September 2012, 15:23 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA have you been to china bill!..i have been 3 times...the han chinese are the majority .. why are you attacking the Dalai lama?///// i know about tibet and the oppressive feudal regime...however i think you'd have to actually go to tibet to witness what is going on...the han chinese are flooding tibet...is that good?...estonia my home country was invaded by the russians in world war 2 and thanks to the allies the russians were "given " the baltic states...so estonia was governed by the kremlin and the russians flooded into estonia... since independence it is madatory that one can speak estonian in order to claim estonian citizenship( the russians would not learn the language..and the official language when the russians were in power was russian...it's not fun bill!..being overlorded by another country...so i say if the tibet wish to run their own country...then they should do so and change to modernise through that not have it imposed upon them by the han chinese... merle Bill!, Your remarks and quotes will make the great zombie lying in Tiananmen Square happy. But he would say, 'not enough, what I did dwarfs them'. Anthony From: Bill! <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2012, 10:00 Subject: [Zen] Re: THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA WOMAN LIKE CATTLE (and a lot of other information) "Tibetan Buddhism has a legacy of violence, hypocrisy, sexism, institutional sexual abuse, homophobia and religious rule by a dictator said to be a living god (the Dalai Lama) - all so the idle monk lifestyle could be supported by a feudal system of peasants who gave over half their labor/possessions. Although Chinese rule has been oppressive for the ruling Lamaist class and its defenders, is there ANY evidence to suggest that going back to rule of a feudal God-King would be better than the current system? Has ANY dictator ever ruled to the benefit of "his" people?" Source - http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/12/277073.shtml I hope these will suffice as 'evidence' of my opinions. There are lots and lots of other sites and you can find them yourself by Binging or Goggling. ...Bill!
