drugs ..drugs drugs...the world of drugs that we encounter now is quite alarming.. a pill for this a pill for that...... always popping pills ..big business our society now.. occasionally i taketh of the wine that jesus spoke of and find the mediative quality enhances perception.. cultures have know to use a variety of plants to enhance awareness... now a days the youth pop the pill at the dance floor..screaming all night long to techno music...
where has the mediative occasion flown...?... where has the search for deepness into ones being flown?... our interior landscape is yet unknown... exploring the reality as we see it around us..indeed.. however there is the inner world... with all the busyness of today who gives a chance for slow deep breathing and meditation upon a flower to take place?... i fear it is a dying art and those who believe they know the answer to the golden flower are busy with greasy palms waiting for the dollars merle..don't pick on john..he did what he did... loved who he loved... as did yoko..compassion please joe! Merle, He was weak because of his constitution, and because of drug use, which is a combination that causes worsening of both. Drugs are proscribed in the Precepts *not* for nothing: A Buddha does not partake of "The Wine of Delusion", as it was called in the good old days. The Precepts, you know, just describe the behavior of a Buddha. Our Study of the Precepts consists in our practicing them. --Joe > Merle Lester wrote: > > no it's not off zen... zen is life and life is zen..how else would you have > it?..a separate dance? > > why do you say that?.. > > here you speak of love and say lennon who was besotted by yoko..obviously... > > you say it was not so?... > > so why was he so weak he could not dispose of her and put may as his number > 1.? > > .not all is as it seems.. > > often when we look back we colour our remembering with what might have > been... > > or maybe's > > merle > > Â > Merle, > > The biographer interviewed some 427 people who knew John [snip]
