Edgar,
I'm not "objecting" to Merle's emulating your ways, but I am compassionately
and honestly pointing out, as any true friend would do, that this is what it
appears she is doing.
She, like you (and I'm not talking about you behind your back, Merle... *I* see
you reading, there) have taken a nasty, irrational, grasping-at-the-creepers
(Chinese classical phrase) tack, of late.
I sense the genetic origin of this in Merle, and see the green of the pea-pod
on both your sallow faces, here.
I don't object, but I "NOTE" it. As in Vipassana practice. One notes it, and
drops the note.
The note is now in your hands.
So, no, I'm not "afraid" to speak my mind, as you say Merle also is not.
Neither an I unafraid. It is a duty to a friend, or to ANY individual, to tell
them the truth. The moreso when we can't actually meet, hear the timbre of a
voice, and feel the warmth of a handshake.
I encouraged Merle, and still do encourage her, to take a look at herself to
see that she is doing this Edgar-emulation nastiness.
It may bolster a person's ego to attack and destroy, and to feel that we have a
brother-in-arms on the other side of the world to carry these irrelevancies out
with in Public, together; but, that's not the intended function of this group,
nor why members have flocked here. But it *is* why some are leaving.
Zen is not an ego-sport, nor an activity intended to increase the size of one's
fan-base, nor the size of one's kennel of attack-dogs, or Facebook "friends"
total.
Well, think about it, my friend.
You know, in a parallel universe from yours-- called OUR universe -- we *ARE*
friends. And zen practice is our Windex, so we can see each other, and see our
world, clearly. Within that clarity arises wisdom and compassion,
simultaneously. And the function of those is to save all beings.
Now lets wipe the panes and begin again. Always again.
Remember -- no, forget -- Beginner's Mind. Let's just exemplify Beginner's
Mind, and do the best we want.
To work!, to rest!, perchance to awake from dreams,
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Is that what you are objecting to? That she doesn't agree with you?
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