here here..i whole heartedly agree bill...come on chris... merle Chris,
This is the very dilemma Siddhartha is said to have been wrestling with - how to cease suffering. He finally gave up and vowed to sit under the Bodhi tree until he either starved or found an escape. It does have to be noted he had an advantage over us. He sat there without a PC, notepad, smart phone or any connection to the internet at all. But the process is the same now as it was then: Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out. I find the posts on the Forum to be exactly representative of life. Some are annoying; some are boring; but every once in a while there are some that are spectacular! And they make it all worthwhile. And speaking of spectacular I for one would like to see more posts from you. Not just remarks on someone else's post but original posts that tell us how you are practicing zen. I'm sure you are practicing spectacularly. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > Sometimes the words in the august Zen Forum remind me of nothing so much as > the inane squabbling my 8 year old and my 12 year old do when they haven't > eaten recently enough. I thought Zen Forum would allow me to escape the > inane and tedious bickering of normal life, but here it is, still posing an > apparent dilemma. > > --Chris > > Thanks, > > --Chris > chris@... > +1-301-270-6524 > > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Joe, > > > > Is that little "." at the bottom meant to represent the size of your brain? > > :-) > > > > Edgar > > > > > > > > On May 26, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Joe wrote: > > > > > > > > Edgar, > > > > What Bill! perfectly meant was "tautology". His Literary-Critical > > English-Lit Major vocabulary got in the way of his eye-tooth, and he > > couldn't see what he was saying (for once). ;-) > > > > And, BTW, Edgar: the Enso in Zen and Ch'an art is NOT a symbol of your > > circular reasoning! > > > > It's not a symbol of reasoning at all. > > > > It's not a symbol. > > > > It's not. > > > > It's. > > > > . > > > > --Joe > > > > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@> wrote: > > > > > > LOL! You are too funny. Trying to be rational but you don't know the > > difference between syllogism and solipsism! > > > > > > No wonder you are so opposed to rationality if you don't have any! > > > :-) > > > > > > > > > > >
