Nothing to clarify, Merle - just that that post deserved a soundtrack to go
with the image of Joe descending from the clouds in a chariot. Awesome. My pc
screen is still glowing.
I've been on this forum getting close to 10 years now and in that time ('time'
seems to be a dirty 4-letter word these days) I often have little flurries of
correspondence intermingled with longer periods of absence. I also feel that
because I'm coming from a more vipassana/Therevada approach these days that I
have less to say about Zen (which is still saying too much about nothing) So
who knows, it just might be working!
Mike
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From: Merle Lester <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 8:28
Subject: Re: [Zen] for joe..open in the morning!
clarify mike.... tis true you to show promise for having your finger on the
pulse!
..you have being missing from action.
..where oh where have thee been?
..merle
>the mighty sky yields it's power and opens the heavens to reveal it's
>splendour..
and who do i see
the golden chariot rides my way and you are there holding the reins
oh cousin joe
that i see
Priceless. I swear that as I read this the theme song of 'Jesus Christ Super
Star' started playing and stigmata appeared on my hands .
Mike (who's been away from the forum for far too long)
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From: Merle Lester <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 8:01
Subject: [Zen] for joe..open in the morning!
cousin joe.,,
.good morning to you...how were those pillows?
..top of the world.
you cheeky you..
joe from the desert
would i dessert you now i have found you?
not i who have been searching the night sky year after year
..not i
my friend the astronomer... from a far away land
...it is not thee i feel estranged from but your buddy BILL!..
he "refuses" to listen he refuses to learn...
what can any of us do to teach him the way of the lotus?
..his heart is small grey and shrivelled ..
he believes he is the COMPASSIONATE ONE...
i can see through his veil..
there i see a dark black soul...
full of his eternal "NOW'S"..or is it meows?
( it rhymes)
the mighty sky yields it's power and opens the heavens to reveal it's
splendour..
and who do i see
the golden chariot rides my way and you are there holding the reins
oh cousin joe
that i see
you carry the white lotus and you are singing an ancient song that enlightened
souls have always sung
there high in those tibetan mountains
( i must add..that bill! condemns)
so fear not
while i linger yet in the nursing home my laptop on my lap
STILL
I check and check again
is there a message of cheer for me?
tis joe..tis joe and i shout with glee
oh mighty desert friend
i would not desert THEE!
merle
Merle, if you're finished, may I please have your catcher's mitt and Louisville
Sluggers?
(no, not the Romney character).
I'll be preaching here soon, provided the money arrives, and I'd like to hit
one out of the park.
Don't dessert me
here, Dear;
because, I already
live in the desert.
And Kris
will miss
you, too;
and so will
I,
three.
Sleep on it? Anyway, when the time comes, Sleep (I just bought TWO new
pillows: Let's see if they make a new "me").
No way do I want to lose track of a Cousin.
Rare, and precious,
TNX!,
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
> that's it over and out.
>
> ..i'm finished
