Thanks, Chris Austin-Lane Sent from a cell phone
On Oct 24, 2012, at 0:30, "Bill!" <[email protected]> wrote: > with the exception of just a couple people on the forum I'm sure it went by > unnoticed. Lots more reading than posting here. Despite the amazing number of postings. It is sort of an exercise in speculation to ask about realization of Buddha Nature without intelligence as we all here have intelligence. Not being a tree I cannot comment on the trees realization (and not being Joe Edgar Anthony Bill Bill! Merle KG ED Sureesh etc. I cannot comment on all y'all's realization. The thing to remember about pointing fingers is that there effectiveness is only marginally related to their internal semantics - perhaps for Edgar his statements are a reassuring pointer, unrelated to the literal claim they make. I know I sometimes encounter a sentence from Stephanie Kaza's outstanding book "Hooked": "There is nothing whatsoever to be clung to as me or mine." On first encountering this pointer I felt so deeply at home, that I find it a great pleasure to reread or restate it. Perhaps for Edgar the language and forms of physics as he knows it have been so liberatory it would be disingenuous of him not to share those pointers. When you and he continue to try to force an acknowledgment of each others pointers, it reads to me to be giving weight to the finger being important and unitary, rather than the moon. "Just this!" "Deterministic bounded resource computation of the t prime state from t null". "Don't drink piss and get all depraved" "Join a sangha!" "Create art and don't put on airs!" "Just practice!" "Breathe!" "Just stop!" Is there some way for this group of zen friendly writers to understand and express the idea that all needs all? Possibly I will not be able to recognize such a state were we to create it. ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
