Merle,
With all his positive aspects, it's a fine thing to fixate on.
Does this mean that you are addicted to ...John Lennon-Ono and Yoko Ono-Lennon?
;-)
--Joe
PS (His words were what were called a "teaching". They were meant lovingly for
us. There's something in them besides... words, or ego, or excuses. I wonder
what on earth he could have had in mind? He risked all, for our sake).
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> hey joe..he smoked them..the cigarettes because he was addicted to nicotine
>and did not have the will power to give them up!... merle
> Â
> Salik,
>
> Salik very kindly wrote:
> "A real madman of devotion, love and gratitude."
>
> I love it! Sounds like a fine fellow.
>
> I think I might know this (that!) Salik!, Salik! I think he was/is? a close
> associate of Shahabuddhin Lesh. A tallish skinny fellow, eyes a little
> sunken, yellowish short hair (in 1973-74-75) and who smoked cigarettes, even
> inside the Cathedral!, where it was Verboten, on our Sufi Dancing nights. He
> said he smoked them "in order to keep from becoming too pure". Maybe it's
> the same principle as practiced in the construction of Islamic Mosque
> tile-mosaics,
[snip]
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