Edgar,
You've used that same put-down attempt before, here.
And the same set of denials, for the same purpose.
We can all learn from this spectacle.
That's another thing about (your) ego: it can't be original. It can only
repeat itself. For its purposes.
It cannot even conduce toward the enlightenment of bushes and grasses.
I don't say YOU, I say "it".
Shake free!
We care about the real Edgar, not you. Yet, it's not looking good.
I may be wrong, All, that there may be hope. We're Realists, gang, not
optimists.
See, you can lead a Horse to water, ...but not a donkey.
She must walk to the dojo herself.
--Joe
PS You may have a bow; what color would you like? But you must wear it in
your hair, not on your lapel.
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> LOL! You should give me a bow for bringing out all your attachments you need
> to work through....
>
> As long as you are so obsessively defensive about your attachments you can
> never release them...
>
> Seeing the master in all beings and the lesson he teaches is true Zen...
> Bridling defensively in the face of reality's lessons is the antithesis of
> Zen... That just reinforces the attachments and makes them harder to
> release...
>
> Like tough love my approach could be called 'Tough Zen'! Showing people their
> attachments by challenging them!
>
> Drop those attachments. You won't be lessened by the loss, you'll be further
> on the path you claim to follow...
>
> Loss of ego does not diminish one, it expands one...
>
>
> A bow to the unrealized Buddha within struggling to get out, but being
> strangled by the attachments of ego...
> Edgar
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