Exactly. Pretty obvious isn't it...
Thanks Merle,
Edgar
On Feb 25, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Merle Lester wrote:
>
>
> hey hey...is this edgar bashing a "nice "thing to do..look in your own
> "backyard" before you throw "stones" into edgar's..
>
> are you so squeaky clean?...
>
> and totally "zenified"?
>
> merle
>
>
>
> Bill!,
>
> quoting Bill!:
> " ...to someone attempting to get a clear picture of Zen."
>
> This is no pat on the back to Edgar for his philosophical characterizations,
> nor a critique of your proper critique thereof.
>
> No; I'm just a wise-guy in this second, but I'd like to say that in order "to
> get a clear picture of Zen" these days, I spit on the lens, like old Edward
> Steichen did, one of the Three Patriarchs of American Photography.
>
> ;-}
>
> --Joe
>
>> "Bill!" wrote:
>>
>> Carl,
>>
>> I started to respond to Edgar's post below with a detailed account of how it
>> uses rhetoric and sophistry to present a pseudo-zen perspective of the
>> relationships between 'realization', suffering, "natural design of the web
>> of life" and of course zen.
>>
>> It was just too much for me to take on this morning.
>>
>> Just BEWARE of Edgar's posts on anything like this to do with zen. They are
>> usually at best not an orthodox representation of Zen Buddhist thought and
>> therefore misleading; and at worst are a gruesome distortion that is in fact
>> completely contradictory and therefore absolutely detrimental to someone
>> attempting to get a clear picture of Zen.
>
>
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