Joe, I REPLIED successfully this time. I don't know why this doesn't work all the time. Since it's intermittent I'd bet they're traffic related. Yahoo! does have the warning that it will be doing maintenance on 18-Nov. Maybe these intermittent problems will be solved then.
Anyway, the answer to your question is 'I do not create these graphics myself. I find most of them on Facebook. I share the one's that I think would be particularly interesting to this group. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Siska, Bill!, > > I found that I could not "Reply" to Siska's message nor to Bill!'s message, > either. > > I got the following error when I tried to reply to Bill!'s mssg. via the > Website: > > >Cannot retrieve message 33654 for Zen_Forum< > > and for Siska's mssg. I got the same error, referring to his mssg. no.: > > >Cannot retrieve message 33653 for Zen_Forum< > > I *HAVE* had this difficulty before, at times, when trying to reply to > messages at the Website. It's puzzling! > > Siska, I'd say that "Mu" can be a practice. It's usually given as the full > koan case, Case 1 of the Mumonkan (Gateless Gate); or, just as a hua-t'ou, > just the "Mu" itself. > > A Chinese teacher would give "Wu". > > Sometimes Vipassana teachers will recommend the practice of mindfulness. And > it is precisely that: a practice. It is an artifice which is meant to help a > practitioner to awaken. > > When a practitioner awakens, there is no Mu, nor mindfulness. These > artifices are gone, and cannot be grasped, nor is there any reason even to > pick them up. Anyway, it's impossible. ;-) > > When one awakens, or experiences kai-wu, or emptiness, no-mind, the awakening > may last for a while, perhaps a few months. Then, one may want to pick up Mu > again, or mindfulness again, as a practice. > > This is as I see it, from the point of view of the Zen tradition and Zen > practice. > > There may be other terminology used in Vipassana circles that I am not > familiar with. Or there may be an entirely different interpretation of > "mindfulness" in the Vipassana work. What do you think? > > Bill!, I think it's a great cartoon, succinct, "graphic", and "drawing" a > nice distinction. I don't know where you get these things. Do you make them > yourself on the computer? Kudos! > > --Joe > ------------------------------------ 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/
