Joe, You claim that "you cannot do the work to awaken on your own".
O really, then who pray tell was Buddha's teacher since he had no human teacher? Give up? Answer. It was reality as I've been trying to explain to you. I prove my point... Edgar On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Joe wrote: > Edgar, > > No, Edgar, it is not BS. > > (If you need someone to attack, try Paintball). > > A lot of self-enlightened fools traipse the streets of the world. They are > not awake. Are you one? No, I think you worked with a teacher, once. > > The methods of Zen are Medicine, and the Teacher is Medicine, too. So is a > Sangha. > > You cannot do the work to awaken on your own. The fact that you think it is > on "your" own is what keeps you in the small bottle, and prevents You from > flowing out to expand to the walls of the infinite aquarium. > > Take the medicine; awaken; be well; and *then* your last line is finally > true. Not before. > > Of course not everybody wants to or can do that, even if it means never > awakening. But when these fools represent themselves as masters and demean or > deprecate Practice, they are not to be suffered gladly, nor suffered at all. > > Yes, it's everywhere. So are the unoxidizable tools of awakening, waiting in > the shed, available to you and to everyone if you want to see a change. > > Go for it! > > Or maybe you've done this at some time, and still remember it. > > --Joe > > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: > > > > Joe, > > > > This is BS. > > [snip] > > Zen is not to be found in a teacher or monastery. It's everywhere right in > > front of your nose.. > >
