Yeah Joe! Don't complain about the slight transgression of the 6th Precept in your fellow forum members' eye when there is a big fat cat hair-ball in your eye!
...Bill! --- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > > >  joe..are you lecturing me?... > is there not a couple of old sayings... > that point to one looking in one's own backyard before you point out wrong > doing to others?... > we lead by example joe.... > you telling me your squeaky clean?.. > merle > > >  > Merle, > > Having such thoughts -- of aggrandizing oneself while demeaning others -- is > a breaking of that Sixth precept. > > One need not express the boast, nor the insult, vocally, nor in writing, as > you have done before us all, here. No. > > It's not the expression of the thought, or the process, that counts (hurts): > it's formulating it, or allowing it to form in the first place. > > To be able to formulate it shows, moreover, that one is not Awake, in that > instance. > > The precepts are there (Ours...) as touchstones. They are a description of > the behavior of *A BUDDHA*, a person who is Awake. > > We can compare our behavior to the precepts. Do we "violate" them, in a > particular instance? > > If so, then, in that instant, we are not Awake, i.e., we are not a Buddha, > just then. > > And so, we *practice*. > > --Joe > > > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@> wrote: > > > > yes joe.. i never said a word to the woman..for christ sake what do you > > take me for?..merle > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
