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Merle, If you're choosing a Dharma name choose one that is unflattering or you don't like. That will help prevent you forming attachments to it. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > > > Â i try..i try...many names..many...it's hard...in french my name means > blackbird...how's that one?..merle > > > Â > Merle, > > Is there a Dharma name that you would *LIKE*? > > I have no "clout", in bestowing names, because I am NOT a teacher who has > been given Transmission -- my teacher Sheng Yen died before I could see him > the last time, in Taiwan -- but if you have an idea for a name, that is > probably the best name that any of us could find. > > I'd sign on. > > What-say, dear Sister? Cousin? (see?, we are multiply-related). > > Anything come to you? Mull it over for a while, if you wannna. > > If so, I will add my voice to the name you come up with, as if to confirm it. > > Let us know? > > Else, I will cogitate!; > > I will Meditate!; > > I will Ruminate! > > But..., "You 'TAKES' your chances"!, if you leave it to ME. ;-) > > 'course, you don't have to accept/adopt a name I dream-up: I am just an > ordinary Joe, with no kind of powers nor insight nor wisdom that we'd > attribute to ANYONE. Except those we all have. > > For sure. > > I know about your Grey Elephants, your mountain, your garden, your ART. > Maybe I know sumpthin', then, but it is miniscule compared with what YOU know. > > So, I ask you: WHAT is your Dharma name? What *IS* it? Take a while, sit on > this; does anything arise, and stick? No hurry. > > If you demur in this, I will suggest one. But don't wait for me! I'd so > much by far wish to know your name for yourself: I'd learn from it. > > --J. (Guo-Xiang; Tennen; Hose-A; Hose-B; Hose-C; Hose-W; enough hoses, > already!) > > > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@> wrote: > > > > dearest cousin joe. > > ..i would be honoured if you would bestow a dharma name for me. > [snip] >
