joe.... 
would you suspect me to be addicted to anything but fresh air?

after all... i breath and hence was addicted immediately at birth

 merle


  
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  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
>   
> 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,
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