Joe, I acknowledge my error...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote:
>
> Howdy, Bill,
>
> Now I am really confused, ...and so I feel quite as usual.
>
> Leonard is *my* friend. I was replying to Chris.
>
> Read Leonard's book, and he can be your friend, too. ;-)
>
> Wishes for a happy healthy 2013,
>
> --Joe
>
> --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Chris and his friend Leonard, and would echo that and
> > re-echo the Buddhist credo that attachment is the root cause of all
> > suffering.
> > Buddha's teaching is all about relieving suffering by dropping
> > attachments. Attachments are desires and expectations directly
> > associated with your sense of self. Zen practice is about dropping
> > attachments by first realizing the self is an illusion and then through
> > continued practice dissolving that illusion.
> > No self = no attachments = no suffering.
> > ...Bill!
> > --- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote:
> > >
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > Is that addressed to Suresh, to me, or, as you write, to humanity?
> > >
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > --Joe
> > >
> > > PS My friend Leonard, an author on Anger, and Zen, teaches that anger
> > is caused by an irrational expectation not being fulfilled. For
> > example, someone takes the parking space at the supermarket that you
> > were carefully aligning your car to pull into, and a guy in a small car
> > just speeds ahead of you and slips in. You feel angry. Now, what if a
> > Cow had strode into that space, instead, and sat down: Would you feel
> > angry? The difference is that you expected the fellow in the
> > compact-car to show you some "respect", ...which, unfortunately, ...is a
> > wholly unreasonable expectation. Whereas, the Cow, well, she doesn't
> > even know how to drive! Leonard's book is, THE COW IN THE PARKING LOT.
> > The book even includes exercises for the reader. Now, I would say,
> > Leonard's "cause" of anger is the view from the point of view of
> > Delusion. If viewed from Awakening, I would say that anger is caused by
> > bewitchment with a personal "self", and by concomitant causes and
> > conditions which exacerbate that. Buddhism teaches that it is due to
> > Ignorance, Hatred, and Greed.
>
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