I agree with Joe's post below completely...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> 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?
>
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