To those that are open... Edgar
On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:00 PM, salik888 wrote: > Edgar > > Are you a teacher? > > /\ > > zendervish > > --- In [email protected], Edgar Owen 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Joe wrote: > > > > > Edgar, > > > > > > I'm glad you noticed that about yourself. > > > > > > There may be hope, All! > > > > > > --Joe > > > > > > > Edgar Owen wrote: > > > > > > > > Joe, > > > > > > > > Gosh what a seething mass of attachments! > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > Edgar > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Joe wrote: > > > > > > > > > Edgar, > > > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > > > And, right! This is why some others of your unfortunate poisonous > > > > > (straightenable!) bent don't appreciate other such music, either, > > > > > hundreds of years after the old geezers died, such as the music of > > > > > Bach, or Locatelli, or Tallis. > > > > > > > > > > Only the latest scrapings in front of the bulldozer blade will do! > > > > > > > > > > You're on a fast-burn, and leaving a contrail. > > > > > > > > > > I can just picture you in your hip-hop lifestyle, there in your > > > > > steel-frame domicile, and gangsta suit. > > > > > > > > > > Peddling antiquities. > > > > > > > > > > Not a pretty picture you paint, or figure you cut. > > > > > > > > > > Absolve it all! Take Bill!'s compassionate advice about beginning a > > > > > serious practice, come to awakening, and BEcome some kind of Human > > > > > being in the time remaining. > > > > > > > > > > The sun also rises, but hasn't yet on your Buddha Nature. > > > > > > > > > > The house is made of steel, and is oxidizing. > > > > > > > > > > This whole world of samsara is on fire. Cancel your subscription to > > > > > it, but come back to teach after awakening. You could be good. > > > > > > > > > > Teacher and sangha should be what your Personals Ad should be > > > > > pleading for, instead. "Desperately Seeking Sangha... and Shih-fu". > > > > > > > > > > Yes, listen "to what Reality is saying". > > > > > > > > > > (I didn't say "your" reality. We can hear that over HERE). > > > > > > > > > > Wishes!, > > > > > > > > > >
