Joe, Sounds good though I don't agree that Merle is attacking you nor that she is emulating me. She's her own person and speaks her own mind. She's a strong person and I doubt she takes direction from anyone...
Edgar On Nov 23, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Joe wrote: > 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? > >
